20 For 2020: The Legal Tech Trends that Defined the Year
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But in the world of legal technology and innovation, the phrase I heard often repeated this year was “silver lining.” It was a silver lining in the form of an accelerant.
The challenge to modernizing the delivery of legal services and our systems of justice, as legal futurist Richard Susskind has observed, is that you can’t change the tire on a moving vehicle.
Well, this year brought that vehicle to a screeching halt. Full stop. And then presented the opportunity to reboot.
As never before, we have been forced to rethink how legal services are delivered and how justice is administered.
Not only have we been forced to rethink, but we have been forced to act.
The silver lining of 2020 is that we have been forced to consider changes that were long overdue and then given the opportunity to implement those changes.
We will all be beneficiaries of these changes – but those who will benefit the most are those the legal system is meant to serve.
I started this post talking about silver linings. From the standpoint of legal technology development and innovation, there is no denying that, in the annus horribilis that was 2020, the silver lining was the acceleration of innovation.
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