The legal tech community predicts key issues of the coming year.
Law Technology News sends warm wishes to you and yours for a wonderful, safe, inspiring new year! Of course we could not resist the obvious—a chance to hear from our readers about their predictions for the shiny fresh year ahead. For the next few days we'll bring you the soothsaying of our legal technology community. This is the fourth in the series, see No. 1 here, No. 2 here and No. 3 here. Items may be slightly edited for length and clarity.
>> Halt Couture: What will be big (other than everything related to privacy and protecting all sorts of confidentiality from snooping eyes and ears, public or private—and the continued drive, unwarranted at times in my view, for technology-assisted review), will be the need for the legal community to deal with the proliferation and exponentially expanded use of wearable technology by attorneys and clients. Let's face it, perceived fad or not, enough people will embrace this stuff to require the development of policies within firms, and between firms, clients and service providers, to address confidentiality and to expand the definition of "competence," whatever that means in this era.
Related to this will be the explosion of apps which will also require policies, etc. One scary thing in all of this will be the need to monitor what we do (probably extensive and intrusive monitoring, too) to ensure that we don't allow others to monitor what we do! — Ronald Hedges, consultant (and retired U.S. District Court magistrate judge), Hackensack, N.J.
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