Editor's note: This is the second part of a series looking at the intersection of plaintiffs firms and emerging technologies.

Daniel Lieber and Jeff Bennett were both working as paralegals at a Philadelphia personal injury firm, getting ready to go to law school, when they recognized just how much data law firms handle on a daily basis. There are the hundreds of data points about the client calling in with a possible case, the billions of bytes stored in the firm's hard drives, the countless files being passed back and forth with each referral, or discovery dump.

Although the two had been gearing up for careers in the law, they decided to pivot instead to a career trying to bridge the gap between the latest technologies and the demands of a modern-day law firm. And so they founded the Philadelphia-based legal operations consulting company, MERR Consulting Group.