This the English translation of a short opinion piece on legal
tech that I recently authored for Japanese publication Business
Homu:
When I started working as a lawyer almost twenty years ago, I
was eagerly waiting for all those amazing technological
developments that would change the way in which we work. Well, to a
certain degree I still am: Waiting for the amazing software and
technical tools that will propel the legal profession into the 21st
century. When you think about it, the only truly relevant
technological landslide change to a lawyer's work and, alas,
private life was the launch of mobile email. The roll-out of the
blackberry and, later, other smart phones at the beginning of the
century turned our lives upside down, for better or worse. Other
than that, not much has changed. Effectively, we are still using
typewriters as the primary interface to the world, spending hours
on end sitting in front of screens that are slimmer and have a
higher resolution,
