Making a list and checking it twice? Don’t forget about the most important law and technology developments in 2012, which also can help guide in-house counsel in the New Year. Here, Foley & Lardner attorney Adam Losey, who also edits the online nonprofit IT-Lex and is a member of the editorial advisory board for Law Technology News (a sibling publication of Corporate Counsel and Texas Lawyer), walks us through his top six tech issues of the year:
1. The use of technology-assisted review and predictive coding: The first case law on this issue emerged in 2012, with courts in New York, Virginia and Louisiana green-lighting the application of computer analytics to discovery. And given how much money companies “waste” on discovery, says Losey, “it’s really important to figure out ways to harness technology to do that better.”
