Legal Technology
Legal technology is no longer simply a collection of tools lawyers use. It is increasingly part of the infrastructure through which legal work is created, delivered, managed, sold, and experienced.
I have spent much of my career inside this transformation: first as a lawyer, and later as an operator helping build and grow legal technology companies.
This page is an evolving guide to the legal technology industry, the people and companies shaping it, and the larger changes it is creating across the profession.
What is legal technology?
Legal technology — often shortened to legal tech — refers to software, platforms, data systems, artificial intelligence, and other technologies designed to support or transform legal work.
That includes technology used by law firms, corporate legal departments, courts, legal professionals, consumers, and increasingly the technology companies building entirely new ways of delivering legal services.
The legal tech industry
The legal technology industry now spans practice management, legal research, document automation, contract technology, relationship intelligence, litigation technology, knowledge management, artificial intelligence, legal operations, collaboration, and many other categories.
AI and legal technology
Generative AI is accelerating a shift that was already underway. Technology is moving from supporting legal work to participating directly in research, drafting, analysis, knowledge retrieval, and workflow execution.
More on this in AI and law.
Legal tech careers
One of the most important consequences of this transformation is the creation of entirely new legal careers. Lawyers increasingly work as product leaders, founders, legal engineers, technologists, sales leaders, marketers, operators, knowledge professionals, and AI specialists.
The future of legal technology
The deeper transformation is not simply about better software. It is about the changing architecture of legal work itself: who performs it, how expertise is organized, and how legal value is created.
That larger story continues in the future of law.
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Ben Chiriboga is a lawyer, founder, and legal technology executive. More about Ben.