Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Dominik Tobschall, a German lawyer and software developer, and co-founder and CEO of fruux, a unified contacts, calendaring and tasks service that works across platforms and devices.
Everyone in tech has heard about banks getting disrupted by - or more recently trying to partner with - startups in the FinTech space. A somewhat similar, although still much less visible, development is happening in the legal market - another highly regulated industry. Meet 'LegalTech'.
Until very recently 'tech' seemed to be something evil and awful that most lawyers wanted to beat with a stick. But very recently, at the 67th Conference of German Lawyers in Berlin, the so-called Anwaltstag, something unexpected happened: it was decided that the conference next year will take place under the motto "LegalTech and Innovation". This year's motto wasn't about tech, but there was a panel discussion with the title "LegalTech versus Lawyers?".
