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January 11, 2008
Should Composing and Printing a Will Take Less than Five Minutes?
According to David Beckman and David Hirsch (both in the firm of Beckman & Hirsch in Burlington, Iowa), a lawyer should be able to "[c]ompose and print out a simple will" in less than five minutes. Only in that manner may the firm score a "1" in their test of digital tasks to ascertain the efficiency of a law office. A score of "2" is awarded if it takes five minutes to one hour to prepare the simple will and the worst score, a "3," is given if it takes more than one hour.
See David Beckman & David Hirsch, Testing Your Tech, ABA J., Oct. 2007, 58, at 59.
I seriously query whether proper deliberation of the client's intent and the myriad of contingencies that must be considered when preparing a will could adequately be addressed in five minutes or less.
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The article suggests that a lawyer use software to support some word-processing tasks that recur, use patterns, and are worth building a routine for. In that context, perhaps it's fair to think that one measures the five minutes from the time that - after the lawyer's conversation with his or her client - all selections and fill-ins are decided and recorded in the format used for word-processing assembly.
Posted by: Peter Gulia | Jan 11, 2008 4:15:07 PM
