Lawyers are often perceived as taking an antiquated view toward their practice, taking comfort in the simplicity of boxes packed to the brim with papers and teams of reviewers tediously scanning each one for information relevant to the case. This comfort, so the generality goes, evokes an adverse response to technologies and vendors promising tools that can scan thousands of documents in a matter of minutes with 90-something percent accuracy.
As the legal technology industry matures, however, it appears that this widely held view of the lawyer-as-luddite may not paint an accurate picture of many of today’s legal professionals.
