3 Legal Technology Trends to Look Out for in 2019
The year 2018 was filled with emerging new technologies around the world and across all industries including the Legal industries. Law firms in Africa are following the suite of their European counterparts, they are open to the idea of cloud-based solutions that enables effective work leading to a more substantial output.
In the year 2019, here are some of the trends to look out for in within the Legal Tech Scene.
1. The Era of Client-Focused Law Firms: Clients are day to day individuals who do not have the luxury to understand your work processes or have the knowledge of law. Clients just expect the same level of competency and excellent service that they get from other service providers they are subscribed or any business they interact with, so law firms that can provide instant communication, thoughtful service, and all-around client-centred experiences will stand out from the rest.
2. Security and Privacy: The Conversations about cybersecurity and privacy has already begun since the emergence of cloud-based storage, information’s are now vulnerable to hackers, hence, I believe the conversation would intensify in 2019. We must start by identifying the necessary requirements to prevent the hacking both remotely and otherwise. In Europe, they took the initiative to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 and there are new privacy rules coming into effect in California in 2020, This proves that strict privacy/security rules will likely be a growing trend in 2019 and beyond. We believe Africa will begin conversations as regards privacy and security like their European counterparts in 2019.
3. Consolidating /Digitization of Internal Processes: The demands for efficiency in law firms will push for more and more firms to seek out a technology to improve their internal processes. In 2019, firms will also be turning to automation to help streamline business processes across the firm, there are software solutions that already provide collaboration and complete automation of a firm’s processes. Documents would be centralized, software solutions that scale-up processes whilst improving compliance and gaining efficiencies.
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