Many people throw around the phrase “paradigm shift” whenever there is a blip in the Richter scale of legal technology. While there hasn’t been a Magnitude 8 upheaval, 2013 has brought strong disruption, especially in the area of litigation.
As Law Technology News has been preaching for a while now, the harsh reality is that electronic data discovery is child’s play compared to what is causing all these tremors. Electronic data discovery is just a small subset of Big Data, and predictive analytics is already starting to change the way the legal industry operates (as well as the world). One sign of terrain adjustments is that there have been quite a few significant moves in the last 18 months. Certainly, as Neil Young says, “rust never sleeps”—it’s not unusual to see bright, ambitious people switch jobs over the course of their careers. After all, as Sheryl Crow preaches, sometimes “a change would do you good.” But many high-profile members of our community seem to have itchy feet lately and have made interesting moves. As e-discovery matures and information governance/records management expands, here are 12 people to watch in 2014.
