As if overnight, coronavirus has caused competence in technology to rise to a new level of urgency for the legal profession.
Last year, I wrote about a Wolters Kluwer survey on “future-ready lawyers” that found, not surprisingly, that law firms that already leverage technology are better prepared to keep pace with an evolving legal market than those that are just beginning to use technology or that are not doing so at all.
Suddenly, that concept of a legal market that is “evolving” has morphed into one of a legal market where everything has changed overnight. The point of that survey holds true –- that firms that already leverage technology are better prepared if this becomes the new normal.



