Legal Tech's Predictions for Legal Technology Innovation in 2022
Are you looking forward to the future? My friend, we’re already there. In the legal industry alone, artificial intelligence is baked into everything from discovery to research, cloud and remote technologies allow lawyers to work efficiently and simultaneously, and new technologies like the blockchain provide tantalizing opportunities for future legal tech innovation.
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As technology transforms the way we live and work, here’s what attorneys and technologists predict for the world of innovation in 2022. If you thought a pandemic would slow down how rapidly our world is changing, our experts’ predictions show that the pace of changes continues unabated.
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Sharon Klein, partner, Blank Rome: “The pivotal legal question in artificial intelligence and machine learning is ownership and inventorship. The algorithms forming the basis of AI can do nothing without data. Even when a regulated entity having personally identifiable data properly de-identifies the data, individuals have sued stating that the regulated entity which deidentified the data put the database in the hands of someone with the capability to re-identify back to a unique person (See Dinerstein vs. Google LLC). To alleviate this concern, states like California have provisions stating that when data goes to the AI company it must be accompanied with contractual language prohibiting combining it with publicly available or other sources in an attempt to re-identify back to a person. We expect this privacy trend to be adopted by other states.”
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“Legal Tech's Predictions for Legal Technology Innovation in 2022,” by Zach Warren was published in Legaltech News on January 4, 2022.