The song – or lawyers’ lament perhaps – about the gap between the anticipated rush of litigation and the reality of what actually seems to be happening, might go something like this..
| Where have all the hours gone? Long time passing Where has all the litigation gone? Long time ago Where have all the cases gone? The big 4 picked them every one Will lawyers ever learn? When will they ever learn? |
Listening to Stephen Fry on the radio the other day talking about the Y2K phenomenon ['In the Beginning Was the Nerd' broadcast 3rd/5th October, 2009] brought back old memories. Firms were fascinated by the forebodings expressed by experts that on the stroke of midnight on 31st December 1999 all computer systems would crash as there was no facility to deal with dates after the end of 1999. It was said that nothing we had come to rely on would work on New Year’s Day 2000 and that that was nothing to do with monumental millennium hangovers.