Legal Tech Stack Categories
Before you can build anything, you need a basic understanding of the tech you’re working with. Although there are many potential taxonomies for legal tech, the following structure should help you when thinking about your own business.
Business Productivity Software
Your firm’s productivity software is the backbone of your legal tech stack. This type of software helps your law firm run smoothly. It may not be the most important software decision you make, but it will likely have a significant impact.
Here, we’re talking about suites of software that handle an array of business technology. This is your email software, calendar, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software. In more advanced forms, this includes task management, inter-office communication, and even video conferencing.
The largest players in this area are Microsoft Office, and GSuite—or Google Workspace. Your law firm needs to use at least one of these. Once a lawyer chooses a product like Google Docs, this will influence many of their decisions down the legal tech line—once you choose a side (Google or Microsoft, for instance), you tend to stay with the same brand.
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