The practice of law today is adapting to new cultural and technological conditions. In an era when most people receive news, entertainment, and stories about the world from television and the Internet, lawyers are learning to draw on a similarly visual rhetoric for effective communication. The practice of law today is adapting to new cultural and technological conditions. In an era when most people receive news, entertainment, and stories about the world from television and the Internet, lawyers are learning to draw on a similarly visual rhetoric for effective communication.