This article appears in full in the Illinois Bar Journal.

Legal tech used to look like a local farmer’s market—specialized vendors, each selling one very good thing. You picked your favorites, stirred them together, and hoped they paired nicely for the meal.

That is less true in legal tech today. Very little software is purely local. It lives in the cloud, in part because we expect to access it from anywhere, on any device. You do less mixing. Making disparate web services talk to each other requires a prebuilt connection, an intermediary like Zapier, or a developer who can build the necessary synchronizations. And unexpected changes can ruin the dish. Software updates and interface changes can break habits and integrations…

Members can read the full article on the Illinois State Bar Association site.