Death By Email Blog: Get Out Of My Face

Link: Death By Email Blog: Get Out Of My Face. Roger Matus posts some interesting statistics today about the increasing preference for doing business by email among business executives. I suspect that we lawyers are similar in our preference. I certainly find that I concentrate on the specific business matter at hand when I am communicating with clients via email. Much time is lost in the face to face meeting; the actual business seems to take up a minority of the meeting time, doesn't it? On the other hand, we have lost some of our skill at interpersonal communications, and some of the fun of interpersonal contact with our reliance on email. Sometimes I feel like a machine, slavishly dealing with legal problems, one email after another. Perhaps we need to force ourselves to do more human to human contact? I am reminded of the cult sci fi classic, Brazil. It is a future in which human contact is almost non-existent, and machines run everything. The bureaucracy is broken, and nobody is willing to fix it. Oh, well, I have to get back to those client emails.