Top Technology Trends Impacting 2022

As the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, the impact on businesses and industries worldwide is ongoing. Clients increasingly demand transparency and predictability in pricing and consistency in communication and service from law firms.

It’s more crucial than ever for law firms to stay up to date with law and technology trends, especially for firms that have opted for hybrid or fully remote operations. Firms’ ability to utilize legal technology solutions to meet these challenges will benefit from the increased trust from clients, leading to stronger ongoing professional relationships.

Leveraging Technology

Legal departments continue to experience significant and ongoing digital transformation, and smart law firms seek out technology solutions for a diverse range of challenges. Likewise, the entire legal industry is experiencing increased technology adoption, including further research, investment, and innovation by legal technology companies and law firms.

Trends for 2022 and Beyond

Throughout 2022 and beyond, the legal industry will experience significant positive impacts from broad technology adaptation in court procedures and other legal events. For instance, social media investigation software technology allows for collecting vast amounts of potentially relevant data on opposing parties. Other legal tech advances, such as enhanced website collection, will enable the e-discovery process to capture and preserve websites.

Transparency, Predictability, and Trust

SMI Aware leverages technology to support our clients in the practice of law and help them meet and exceed their legal practice objectives. Both firms and clients profit from the resulting ability for attorneys to focus on service delivery rather than billable hours. SMI Aware is prepared to utilize advances in legal tech to provide vital functions for our clients, such as the automation of administrative work, allowing attorneys to focus on providing the best possible legal services for their clients.

Public Domain – Discovery of Social Media Evidence in Legal Proceedings

Social media profiles contain vast amounts of voluntarily posted information while also being readily accessible and relatively permanent. The prevalence and popularity of social media sites make them a natural target for legal discovery. However, many legal and ethical issues are associated with social media collection and e-discovery. Attorneys are advised to be well versed with those issues. Privacy and Ethics Regarding Social Media Evidence and Discovery Many people post freely and regularly about their professional and personal lives on social media. ...

Is Your Law Firm Properly Scaling Its Social Media Investigations?

If your law firm has dozens or hundreds of attorneys and staff, it’s hard to stay on top of everyone. One of the litigation strategies that often falls through the cracks is social media investigations. As attorneys, our duty of competence in today’s day and age extends to searching for relevant electronically stored information wherever it can be found, and that includes social media. ...

The Danger of Nonaction: What Technologies Are You Ignoring?

In today’s ever-changing technological landscape, companies in all industries share one sentiment: Disrupt, or be disrupted. We have witnessed technology revolutionize transportation, shopping, dining, and virtually everything in between. All organizations, regardless of size, are tasked with the challenge of adapting to these changes and actively seeking ways to optimize operations using the latest technology. Even some of the largest, seemingly untouchable giants such as Macy’s have been on the decline due to slow uptake in the digital space. ...