Several legal tech stories published on 1 April seemed especially imaginative. While some were real and others turned out to be April Fools, they demonstrate the progress made in legal innovation and that the sector is continually finding new ways of applying technology to legal services, processes and education.
Game on
Joanna Goodman
In a convincing post on LinkedIn, legal tech start-up Office & Dragons announced that it was turning its transaction development platform into a game called Legal Legends, in which animated characters race to tackle an endless onslaught of deals. The number of enthusiastic responses suggested that legal techies were quite disappointed that this turned out to be an April Fool.