The notion that lawyers can or should bill their time without ever needing to consider legaltech and what it can do or where it sits in legal practice presupposes that technology and legal practice are two entirely separate things. Once upon a time, that may have been true. It is still true for certain types of technology. Lawyers use Word and they save documents into a document management system, but they don’t need to know the ins and outs of that system or understand what other options are available. But many categories of legal technology are deeply connected to the actual practice of law in a way that foundational technology is not.
