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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sandra Simon who wrote (1363)	3/30/1998 9:41:00 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Y2K and One Law Firm Excerpt from 3/30/98 NY Times article "Law Firms Turn to Technology To Manage the Information Explosion" nytimes.com ..But few, if any, firms have made a more concerted effort to develop a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure than Davis Polk [NYC law firm]. Michael Mills, a former bankruptcy lawyer, has been at the head of that effort. Mills, who learned to program computers as an undergraduate at Reed College, worked at Davis Polk early in his career and ended up as chairman of Mayer, Brown & Platt's computer committee. In 1990, Davis Polk rehired him -- not as a practicing lawyer, but to lead the development of an information and technology system at the firm. Now he serves as director of professional services and systems at Davis Polk. ..In addition, the firm created software to track information on the Internet daily and bring it to the firm's desktops. With it, the firm is amassing its own database of Securities and Exchange Commission filings involving potential Year 2000 computer problems. The Year 2000 problem is an issue many companies need to address in corporate filings, and lawyers drafting such provisions often are interested in how other companies have handled the issue.