Technology and the Law

Technology will impact on how lawyers work. Almost everyone agrees with that proposition now. Here's why:

• The Internet has enhanced communication speed and accessibility which has fundamentally changed client service expectations and the response times in the market

• The vast amount of electronic information available has made search and retrieval a vastly different affair to that of twenty years ago, when a trip to the law library and a long afternoon was required to get oven an overview of the latest law in an area

• Collaboration software is allowing the process of wor