Last month, I spoke at the annual conference for the IP Paralegal Institute in Cary, NC. The topic of my presentation was about how to create an “eOffice” – to move away from paper and go digital. I started the talk with an overview of the legal marketplace for unbundled and online legal services and ended it with a look at where the profession will be in the next five years. I discussed decision-making systems like Neota Logic and document assembly and automation technologies as well as online case and client managegment systems that automate many of the functions of a law office. The final question from the attendees afterwards was a new one for me, probably because it was the first time I had spoken to a room of paralegals rather than lawyers: “With all this technology, how many human bodies do you think it will replace in the law firm?” ...READ MORE