This article discusses BlackBerry use in New Jersey’s law firms. According to R. Max Crane, the Managing Partner of Sills Cummis & Gross, “The reality is that we’re a service business; we respond to our clients like banks and Fortune 500 companies. If you don’t have [a BlackBerry], you’re putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage.” “[The BlackBerry] significantly improves our ability to deliver services to clients,” Crane said, adding “the younger generation of lawyers is always in touch, [so guidelines on its use are] less a policy [issue] and more common sense.”
