Just back from last week’s LegalTech in New York, and with the perspective of someone who has been writing about legal technology for more than two decades, I am convinced that I have never before seen a time of such intense and creative innovation in legal technology. However, it is not LegalTech that has me thinking that; rather, it is a legal-tech sideshow that coincided with it called ReInvent Law NYC.
LegalTech is billed as the largest and most important legal technology event of the year. I have no doubt it is the largest and, in many ways, the most important. It is where the legal tech “establishment” comes to show off its wares and where hopeful new entrants come to drum up interest. But if there were innovations to be found here this year, they were at best incremental. Most of the products that vendors demonstrated for me were simply variations on the products they showed me last year.
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