The annual FutureLaw conference — produced by CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, with the sponsorship of Thomson Reuters — has always been a good forum to discuss the impact of fragmented forces in the global legal system: technology, innovation, data, people, and new legal tech startups.
This year, the conference seemed to pivot away from simply diagnosing the condition of the legacy legal services industry and began to take a hard look at what a future defined by all that fragmentation might look like.
The consensus from the many panels and talks at FutureLaw seems to be that it will be centered on data, platforms, interoperability, and open systems.
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