Why Legal Workflow Is the Next Frontier in Tech Law
By Naomi Khalid
The legal field is facing unprecedented technological challenges with the rise of artificial intelligence. Lawyers across all sectors are being forced to adjust. It’s all about finding ways to increase productivity, efficiency and speed—and while also staying private and secure. This shift comes with a host of new, complex problems: Law teams are drowning in electronic evidence, sensitive data and critical regulatory mandates. If your systems aren’t up to the task, both the scale and the technical nature of evidence can feel paralyzing, whether you’re working on data breach cases, AI litigation, or any other type of technology-related legal work.
Traditional workflows (sticky notes, email threads, and siloed spreadsheets) just don’t cut it anymore. When your company is analyzing terabytes of evidence, communications with expert witnesses and under court-mandated deadlines, fragmented systems are a liability. One misfiled document, one overlooked timestamp can unravel a case in a heartbeat. Technology-driven litigation in particular, whether you’re dealing with algorithmic bias, IP theft or data transfers, demands tools that are just as agile as the issues themselves. It’s not enough to be a legal expert anymore. It’s also about managing the legal process with the same accuracy, and at the same speed, as the technology at hand.
Take AI-related disputes, for example. Lawsuits against a startup for biased outputs, or by a startup to prove originality in training data, are only one side of the coin. Both situations can require analysis of thousands of digital documents, including source code, internal Slack messages, user data logs, and more. Discovery in data breach cases, meanwhile, may entail security protocols, timestamped server logs, and email trails between departments. These are high stakes environments, where agility, precision and coordination aren’t nice-to-haves, they’re absolute must-haves. Firms with smarter workflows are already ahead of the curve when it comes to matching the velocity and volume that technology law requires.
To manage this growing complexity, many firms are turning to legal project management platforms—tools like Filevine—that support real-time collaboration, task tracking, and streamlined case handling.