For the last five years, TRU Staffing Partners has given Legaltech News an annual “Top Ten Predictions” for the legal technology job market in the year ahead. Last year’s predictions heralded the normalization and increased utilization of contract and remote work-from-home staffing. These trends make the list again backed by some potent statistical data points that make it easy to forecast the outcomes of the job market related to virtual and freelance augmentation in 2020.

However, other observations in 2019 point to less business fundamentals and more culturally philosophic changes in how law firms, corporations, and legal service providers operate and staff. Subtle pivots in staffing modalities, hiring priorities, and the coinciding adjustments in career ambitions will reshape how legal technology professionals collaborate as a community in the year and decade ahead.