In Re West

MEMORANDUM OPINION

TERRENCE L. MICHAEL, Chief Judge.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. 1

Like virtually every other facet of American life, the practice of law has changed dramatically in the past twenty-five years. Those of us who were around the profession in 1981 remember items such as carbon paper, typewriters, rotary telephones, and use of the United States mail as a primary method of communication. Today we live in a world of word processing, instantaneous e-mail, incessant cell phones, and, in many courts,…