Future of Law Committee

Technology is rapidly changing the practice of law. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and block chain are just three examples of technologies that are fundamentally changing the tools that lawyers use to practice, as well as creating new competitors seeking to disrupt the traditional delivery of legal services.

These changes have had, and will continue to have, a significant impact on the lives and practices of North Carolina lawyers. Most lawyers in private practice, however, don’t have the time or resources to stay abreast of changes happening at the leading edge of innovation, nor does the North Carolina Bar Association (“NCBA”) have a body dedicated to anticipating and adapting to these changes.

NCBA internal departments such as Center for Practice Management, of necessity, focus time and resources on providing technology and practice management advice to the broadest swath of membership possible; emphasis is put on offering high-return, thoroughly-tested solutions to NCBA members. Sections such as the Small Firm & Technology Section, similarly serve the middle part of the market rather than the earliest adopters.

The NCBA and the lawyers of North Carolina need a body dedicated to tracking, analyzing, and contextualizing these leading-edge changes being wrought by technology on the law. The trends happening today at the front of the curve will be factors in daily practice of North Carolina lawyers in a relatively short time frame.

The Future of the Law Committee is that body. The Future of Law Committee tracks and analyzes the impact of leading-edge technology in the law.

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