This article reviews some of the impacts of information technology on society; on law offices in general; and on drafting offices in specific. It explains the particular challenges faced by drafting offices in the information age. And it describes the identity crises in the United States and Canada and how those jurisdictions have been responding to those crises. It concludes with some observations and suggestions for drafting offices.

We've been living in the information age for about 25 years now, give or take a few years. The personal computer was introduced in the early 1980s, but it wasn't until the early 1990s that people began to speak of the "information superhighway" and the "information age". It's worth reflecting on how we lived and worked in the early 1990s, because for most of us in modern societies we don't live and work that way any more.