There are too many heavyweight topics upon which one might opine today: reviews of family and criminal justice, to name but two.

We crave your indulgence therefore to comment instead upon something less momentous but, in its own way, no less diverting. That is the decision of Eversheds to sign a deal that could see all its lawyers move on to Apple iPads, enabling them to work ‘more flexibly’ and access data ‘24/7’. The initiative will allow lawyers to review documents, host virtual meetings, arrange schedules, and access mail and business intelligence from wherever they happen to be.

Lawyers (and indeed journalists) tend not to be exceptionally proficient in new technology. But it is increasingly evident, even to we mobile-working neophytes, that the developed world is in the midst of a revolution. This was brought home to your author when he encountered long queues in Fleet Street peopled by men (and they were almost all men, curiously) waiting to acquire the iPhone 4.

It’s under 20 years since the Gazette was running features on why solicitors should buy a computer and what computers did. Now it seems deskbound computers and even laptops are becoming quaint.

One day soon perhaps, every law firm will be a virtual law firm. Join our LinkedIn group to contribute to the debate.