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Re:Ask HN: Was a dev. Became a lawyer. How do I become a dev... by ssss11 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @05:45AM (#29691308)
I work in the back office of law firms and tomcam has made a good suggestion, to look t software for law firms, because I can tell you the “digital transformation” all other industries have been going through for quite a few years has only just begun in law firms.. they are risk averse and therefore move slow.

Lots of technology innovation going on in this space

Re:Ask HN: Was a dev. Became a lawyer. How do I become a dev... by ss108 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @12:50PM (#29694541)
Yeah I think there's a lot of opportunity in legal tech and that I am well-poised to be a part of it.
Re:Ask HN: Was a dev. Became a lawyer. How do I become a dev... by ssss11 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @06:54PM (#29697542)
Let me know if you have any specific questions I may be able to help.

The incumbent PMS and DMS vendors have the market captured for large law firms and the systems are generally slow and expensive to change, but smaller ones have more saas options and smaller ones move quicker.

There is a lot going on in legal ops, innovation and newlaw- things like eDiscovery tools for forensics of new data types - social media, audio and video etc. there’s ML contract review, there’s workflow apps, docusigning, relativity, nuix ….

In general IT space Le firms are slowly moving to cloud so there’s the whole azure, aws piece, other adjacencies like auth (eg. Okta)

There’s also the blockchain hype.. smart legal contracts, lawyers who can code etc

Re:Ask HN: Was a dev. Became a lawyer. How do I become a dev... by ss108 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @07:13PM (#29697661)
> There’s also the blockchain hype.. smart legal contracts, lawyers who can code etc

Yeah if you know more about that, I'd like to know. Thanks