When legal technology is discussed, a couple of questions are usually asked: What is legal technology, and what is the value it brings to the legal department? With tighter budgets than their private practice counterparts, adoption has been slower in in-house legal departments.
The pandemic has, of course, had a hand here. “Businesses need to move, suddenly it’s no longer a question of comfort or preference, it’s a question of continuation,” says Maurits Annegarn, Segment Manager of corporate legal at Wolters Kluwer’s Legal Software unit.