The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2013
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Here are my picks for the 10 most important legal technology developments of 2013. What am I missing? What would be on your list?
The numbers are not meant to indicate priority. They are all important, in my mind.
5. Lawyers realized that computer analytics are allies, not enemies.
The warning bell came with the 2011 New York Timesarticle, Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software. Some lawyers started to believe that advances in artificial intelligence and computer analytics were a bad thing, threatening to displace lawyers from their hard-earned jobs. Some still believe that, but 2013 marked a turning point, from lawyers seeing “smart” computers as their enemies to understanding them as their allies. Computers cannot and will not replace lawyers. But they can make their lives much easier and help reduce the time and the cost of performing legal tasks. Nowhere is this more true than in the e-discovery arena, with predictive coding and computer-assisted review providing efficiencies that directly translate to time and cost savings.
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