Law Firm’s Information Age Is Showing

Digital faux pas redux: In trying to drum up a little legal business by playing up the Y2K bug, Latham & Watkins last week touted a survey it commissioned that found nearly half of Americans would hold the owner of a business responsible for inconveniences caused by the company’s lack of Y2K compliance.

But Latham, a big-time Los Angeles-based law firm with a significant computer and technology group in Orange County, seems a bit behind the times itself. The firm’s letterhead lists the addresses and telephone and fax numbers of its 14 offices worldwide, but no e-mail or Web addresses.

It appears Latham doesn’t expect a lot of visitors to its Web site, https://www.lw.com. At the end of last week, the firm had yet to post the news release issued on Tuesday.