The Future Of Legal Tech: It’s Not As Scary As Lawyers Think

This Arizona transplant froze earlier this month in NYC but over all I believe things are heating up between technology and legal. It’s been a year since the Reinvent Law event in NYC and the number of legal tech companies has grown rapidly. A February 4^th 2015 Evolve Law event at Cardozo Law School addressed an important question: Why are attorneys somewhat resistant to change, particularly technology?

A recent article, “Four Areas of Legal Ripe for Disruption by Smart Startups” by Bob Goodman and Josh Harder of Bessemer Ventures, identified the most promising types of legal tech companies. There are indeed hundreds of legal startups popping up all over the US and Europe. However, adoption of technology in the legal field is still slow.

Why do attorneys struggle with adoption of technology?

A simplistic answer is that nobody wants to be replaced by technology and most people do not like change. As someone who led a finance department at a law firm and now sells into the legal field, I can say that attorneys want automation to be easy (not so different than other busy professionals).

Read the full article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/maryjuetten/2015/02/19/legal-tech-or-tech-legal/