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Can Today's Lawyers Practice Without a Cell Phone?

By Bruce Carton

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Via a post on the ABA Journal's Web site I came across a Bloomberg article about certain high-profile professionals who are saying goodbye to their cell phones in favor of, well, nothing. Among the unreachable individuals noted in the article are Warren Buffett, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, national radio show host Tavis Smiley and law professor Afsheen John Radsan. Why dispense with a device that most of us find vital? Bloomberg suggests that not having a cell phone "is a way of getting the world to run on your time," and Radsan says he believes it is important not to respond to everything. Even though Radsan's wife gets annoyed that she cannot reach him to plan things on the fly, he says he remains of the mindset "that we can avoid that just by planning. I say, 'Katy, I'll be home at 7 or 7:30,' and she says, 'Let's talk about it later.'" Jonathan Reed, a no-phone dean at the University of La Verne, says getting rid of the cell phone makes him more efficient -- not less. "I'm more focused. It forces me to be proactive," he says. Could a successful practicing lawyer get away with having no cell...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).