Legal Technology – The Future is now

Thirty years ago, attorneys thought that the use of email in the legal industry would never amount to more than inner office memos. The thought of communicating with clients in a legal capacity over digital means seemed unthinkable. Now, email is the leading way that attorneys communicate with clients, experts, and other people that are connected with a case.

Less than twenty years ago, the term eDiscovery was just starting to emerge in legal circles. Law firms were having to adjust their discovery processes to accommodate the increasing amount of data that was being submitted in digital form. New technologies and strategies had to be applied to process this information. Law firms also had to learn how to interpret things like metadata and file storage information.