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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (5577)	4/27/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Respond to of 9818

callaw: If computers don't crash, what will all those lawyers do? callaw.com [...] Until the end of the year, however, technological annihilation is just about the perfect legal threat: extraordinarily expensive business crises for which contingencies must be developed, and no real way of setting the limits of liability until the fallout begins -- or fizzles. "I'll be the first to admit that we don't really know, one way or the other," says Smedinghoff, a litigation partner with McBride Baker & Coles. "But the people predicting that it is the end of life as we know it are just as much out on a limb as people who say it won't be anything." [...]