Seven Signs Your Law Firm%u2019s Technology is Outdated – Law Technology Today. When I was a young lawyer, I had a side gig as a computer consultant. I would go into law firms and install case management, time and billing and other productivity software. I gave up when I realized that the computers and tech in the offices was old, outdated and underpowered, and I got blamed when the software wouldn’t work properly. I hope every one of those firms, and any other firm interested in productivity and efficiency, reads this article, and asks some hard questions. If your computer monitors weigh 25 pounds, you might be a troglodyte. If all the computers in the office are beige boxes running Windows Vista, you might need to update your systems. If your idea of computer security is locking the front door of the office every night, you might be…well, you get the picture. You do, don’t you?