22 January 2014
Young lawyers in favour of becoming "early adapters"
Young lawyers want to use technology to transform outdated working practices, according to new research from Eversheds among 1,800 lawyers below the age of 40. One third felt the profession does not use technology well enough. Nearly half identified ways to make their firms more efficient through technology. Sophia Dirir, chair of the Junior Lawyers Division (JLD), says: “As the youth market of the legal profession, the JLD accepts and embraces its role, (along with that of its members), to trail blaze in technological legal advances and to become ‘early adopters’.”
