Years ago, U.K. consultant Richard Susskind predicted that technology would both change the nature of legal practice and enable it to accommodate changes caused by technological and other factors. As we continue to adjust to what increasingly appears to be a sea change in the nature of legal practice, it is clear that technology is an especially important facet of legal practice. This year’s impressive number of nominations was evidence of that conclusion—as well as of some of the ways that cultural technology icons such as the iPad are important to lawyers.
In our 11th year, the LTN Innovation Awards judges again were Andrew Adkins III, CIO, Steptoe & Johnson; David Whelan, manager, legal information, The Law Society of Upper Canada; and Fredric Lederer, chancellor professor of law and director of the Center for Legal and Court Technology and the Courtroom 21 Project, William & Mary Law School.
