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ABA Tech Report 2017 is Out

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Available on the website. Looks like quite a few interesting articles and survey results:

The ABA Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) is proud to present the fifth annual ABA TECHREPORT. ABA TECHREPORT dives into data from the LTRC’s Legal Technology Survey Report to highlight key numbers and practical takeaways for today’s lawyers. In this edition of ABA TECHREPORT our experts weigh in on topics ranging from technology training to technology assisted review.

I’m looking forward to spending some time reading it.

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