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Four Keys to Litigation Technology Innovation in the Next Five Years

By Steven Ashbacher
November 02, 2015

Electronic discovery is a complex business that requires continuous professional learning from litigation team members and ongoing innovation from technology solution providers. To help stimulate discussion and drive innovation, The Legal Innovation 2020 (LI 2020) Working Group was formed at the beginning of 2015 in order to help legal-industry leaders identify the keys to success over the next five years.

Below are some of the observations, concerns and solutions expressed at sessions held over the course of the past year. It's worth noting, these ideas are categorized by discussion and reflect the collective views, from senior leaders across corporate counsel, law firms and legal technology, as recorded during these sessions as follows:

  • Early case assessment;
  • Data security;
  • Flexible workflow; and
  • Machine intelligence.

Early Case Assessment

According to Gartner, by 2020, information will be used to reinvent, digitalize or eliminate 80% of business processes and products from a decade earlier. That trend line appears to be right on track in the legal industry, where evolving tools and technology in the area of early case assessment provide just one example of how information governance is being reshaped.

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