Who would have thought it? That was my reaction when I read
this obit in the Post. Three paragraphs:
Mr. Rubin was a corporate lawyer in New York during the late 1960s
when he was asked to give his advice on a new computerized legal
research system.
The digital database had begun as a project to
catalogue Ohio state laws using Air Force technology [emphasis added] that tracked
intelligence reports. Mr. Rubin quickly saw the system’s commercial
potential because of its ability to make millions of legal documents
easily and quickly available to law firms.
The key was to ensure
that the database was simple to use, Mr. Rubin said, because “lawyers
can’t type, and only 15 percent can spell.”
Of course, I enjoyed the last paragraph as well.
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