16 LEXPERT MAGAZINE
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APRIL 2019
Technology aimed
at lawyers continues
to change the way
law is practised
as those with deep
subject-matter
expertise recognize
there's a better
way to service clients
BY JULIUS MELNITZER
B
erating the legal profession as lacking in innovative drive
— particularly when it comes to technology — verges
on the fashionable. But fashion passes, frequently into
myth. And so it may be with the ubiquitous image of lawyers
as technologically challenged, risk-averse Luddites, ill-suited to
the demands of the Information Age.
"If you look at the direction from which change is emerging,
what you're seeing is lawyers with deep subject-matter expertise
recognizing that there's a better way to service clients," says Mat
Goldstein of Toronto, Chief Revenue Officer and co-founder
of DealMaker, whose soware is designed to streamline legal
and financial transactions, particularly in the private-place-
ment sphere. "It's not really the clients or general counsel who
are driving technological change."
PHOTO:
SHUTTERSTOCK
Driving
Innovation
