Many law departments have for some time been impervious to adopt automation, but the impact of the worst pandemic outbreak compelled them to turn over new leaf and implement the use of automation in their legal activities. The major challenge is choosing the best technology. Technology has become an obvious solution these days to face challenges. The future trends in legal departments in association with technology are:
- Escalating the payout on legal technologies by three times in the next five years: pandemic has burdened the workloads on legal teams. So many legal teams have already included technology by making a large investment in it and successfully take a competitive advantage over other legal teams. This fact drives the appetite of competing legal firms to digitize their work models thereby supporting the staff as well as meet the yield demand.
- Automating the legal work: the challenge of colossal workload can be overcome by increasing productivity. Advancement in machine learning offers a path for handling the above crisis. In a survey of legal departments, it has come out that the corporate transactions can be automated for about 55%. Identifying specific issues in the legal department and find solutions by automation.
- Investing in legal applications: many technology vendors are existing in the market. Before deciding on the investment in customizing the application there is a need to pick a vendor who has broader knowledge about process automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and other upcoming technologies.
Apart from incorporating the technology in your legal work as these technologies offer high potential results, expansive it needs to be understood before working with it so that there is no breach or loss of data or sensitive information. Also need for perfect planning about technology inclusion becomes critical. An efficient roadmap for legal technology that advances the particular operational functionality can be used for the betterment of legal services.