It’s Legal Tech, Not the Other Way Around

I just returned from a legal tech conference, and the energy in those rooms is real. The creativity, the speed of iteration, and the way people are thinking about tomorrow’s tools is astounding. You can feel the future taking shape right in front of you.

I kept coming back to one simple thought though: I hope we remember to keep legal before tech.

It is easy to get caught up in the architecture, the agents, the workflows, the models, and the next big leap. And there is no doubt that it is exciting. But the justice system is not a sandbox. We do not build to showcase what is possible. We build for people. The law is about solving disputes and, ideally, preventing them in the first place. That is the work.

So the question is not whether the tools are impressive. They absolutely are. The question is whether we remain anchored to the people and the disputes we are building them for.

If we keep our focus there, we give ourselves a real chance to build this technology properly.