Letter from the Chair
Dear Section members and friends,
Welcome to the Computer & Technology Section of the State Bar of Texas. I am excited to serve as Chair for the coming year and continue the work of this Section in its 36th year.
Technology is no longer a separate category of professional skill. It affects how all lawyers communicate, manage matters, protect client information, present evidence, advise businesses, and serve the public. Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, digital evidence, automation, and practice management tools are now part of the everyday environment in which lawyers must work.
This year, the goal of the Computer & Technology Section is to help Texas lawyers meet that environment with confidence and skill.
In a companion article published at the start of this term, I shared the idea of The Adaptable Lawyer: a lawyer who treats adaptability as part of the job. Not every lawyer needs to become a vibe-coding programmer or technology specialist, but every lawyer should be prepared to adapt: to keep learning, ask better questions, and change as the profession changes.
Continuing that idea, our theme for the year will be: Adapt with Intelligence. We will work to bring you experts across the legal technology field to provide practical, actionable education in a way that will help you continue to adapt. We will connect that content to real legal practice: what you need to know, how you can recognize risk, what tools you should understand, and what steps you can take now in your practice.
Our members include lawyers focused on law practice management, legal technology, firm and government policy, privacy, cybersecurity, digital evidence, artificial intelligence, corporate counsel issues, litigation, judicial education, and more and you come together from different practice areas, firm sizes, career stages, and regions across Texas. While every one of you is encountering the evolution of the practice of law from a different perspective, our goal is to bring those perspectives together.
Our Section will be a wide tent: useful to the solo practitioner evaluating practice-management tools, the litigator handling digital evidence, the in-house lawyer advising on AI governance, the government lawyer working on technology policy, and the senior lawyer looking for practical ways to stay current.
Wherever you are in your practice, I invite you to participate in our CLEs, publications, committees, and conversations this year. Help us build a Section that is practical, welcoming, and prepared for the future of Texas law.
Mitch Zoll
Chair, Computer & Technology Section
State Bar of Texas