Disruption? More Like Incremental Change for Big Law (Perspective)

Editor's Note: The author of this post is a legal technology and management consultant. The legal media has lately had a mania for tech headlines. Many commentators claim that tech, especially artificial intelligence (AI), will do something to Big Law. Tech more likely will do something in it: incremental change. I start with the case against disruption, then look at four headline-grabbing technologies: AI, Bots, Big Data, and Blockchain.