Offshoring, blogging, regulation, the costs of compliance – these are all trends within the IT industry that will affect the work of IT directors in the legal marketplace in 2006.

With the IT industry showing no signs of a slowdown in the breadth of products being developed, the start of the year saw a panel of IT experts analyse the trends affecting the market that are expected to make their mark this year. Trevor Salomon, marketing director of Northern Europe for Adobe Systems, chaired the proceedings at St Martin’s Lane Hotel in London.