Observations from the biggest technology show in the legal industry: "no new stuff."
It’s been about a week since LegalTech New York attendees packed their bags and headed home. Now it’s time to reminisce, and in the case of bloggers, offer up reviews of the massive event.
First up is attorney Robert Ambrogi, who runs LawSites. He says in a Feb. 10 post that there were few innovations this year, adding if there were any to be found they were “at best incremental.”
However,...
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....
The dilemma about LegalTech, whether in New York or Los Angeles, is that you can't be in five different places at once.
It's always an absolute whirlwind of ideas, demonstrations, meetings, ideas, meals, networking, videos, ideas, presentations, overload, and did I say, ideas? It's exhilarating and somewhat dizzying. It's so difficult to choose among the panels, people, priorities, but you just have to do it. The cliché of course is to compare it to cruise food spread, but that's too easy.
So...