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When Greg Siskind started practicing law more than a decade ago, he wasn't sure what he wanted to do with his legal career, and the most significant thing he knew about computers was that he couldn't afford one.
Today, Siskind runs one of the largest immigration law firms in the country, Siskind Susser, and is considered a pioneer in the use of the Internet in the legal profession.
It's quite a leap, but not entirely surprising.
Siskind grew up in Miami, where immigrants and the issues of immigration were much more a part of the local culture than in Tennessee. It helped that his father ran an advertising agency there that specialized in travel industry clients.
"I had the opportunity to travel around the world when I was a kid and just grew up in that kind of environment," he says.
He started practicing in 1990 at the prestigious Waller Lansden law firm in Nashville, where he was assigned...