Always this time of year, talk inevitably turns to trends. What will happen in the New Year? What trends will prevail? It’s a great way for law firms to benchmark potential options, technology and processes to further improve their practices.

The transition from 2015 and 2016 is no different. Based on our daily work with numerous law firms, here are five predictions we see for 2016. Further, we break each down with a rating of 1-5. Five represents a high possibility for 2016 while 1 means there is a highly unlikely chance we’ll see a high rate of adoption of that particular trend in 2016.