Caroline Hill, Editor of the Legal IT Insider, has let us know of the untimely death of Charles Christian, its founder and Godfather of Legal Technology.

From the October 2008 issue 213 of LTI:

“In October 1978 … Insider editor Charles Christian wrote his first article on legal technology. It was about a solicitors accounts system that ran on a Triumph Adler visible records card minicomputer. Two years later he became the Law Society Gazette’s first regular IT columnist. Then, in 1985, Christian was appointed editor of Practice Today, the world’s first (albeit short-lived) magazine devoted to law office technology. Fax machines and CP/M were hot topics back then.”

I knew Charles since that time on Practice Today in 1985, when I worked in adjoining offices at Longman Professional in Lamb’s Conduit Street.

He was indeed a legend! Sadly, I did not have much contact with him in recent years but I have followed him in his other worlds. He has gone to another.

RIP Charles.