Last week’s Legal IT 2002 Show, held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, threw up some interesting issues for the legal industry.

For a start, it illustrated that, despite the technology industry’s dismal performance during the past 18 months, the pace of innovation in the legal sector is, if anything, still accelerating. A large number of new products were launched at the show, giving a clear signal that suppliers expect the market to pick up.