Enter the CLTO

Legal Doing Technology in the C-Suite Future

The Law continues to change (={totally}[re/configure]) and with speed accelerating.

We have entered the era of the CLTO - Chief Legal Technology Officer.

It is not enough for large law firms or big corporates to hire even the best developer to build or innovate their internal platforms which touch on law in the new Ai+Law Era (Information Age giving way to the Data Age).

a) Law is data.

b) The impact of Ai on the Law great magnitude, rendering this knowledge and participation not important but critical.

c) The impacts are presently unknown.

d) Ai will touch upon the most intimate areas of the Law; thought, legal reasoning, data inputs and data outputs. Words chosen.

e) These tools will replace many current essential actions in Law.

“ The Law is an ASCII "

Developers have massive talent in the esoteric realm of code architecture and technique, and yet 0 cognizance over the nuances in the Law.

These include: ethical guideposts, best practices, and requirements; procedural realities and their variations by jurisdiction or judge or clerk; not to mention the law, statute and precedent; and law firm operations.

The same is true btw for lawyers desiring to build code projects for their applications. We want what we want, yet do not understand the technical realities and limitations in this esoteric realm. And most of us cannot code ourselves.

So, in this critical era, who can build the future-project [platforms, tools] for a new Ai Law? You cannot throw a budget at this for solution. It must be bespoke and thought through.

There are only two alternatives:

1. A productive human partnership between a talented developer and lawyer.

2. A CLTO. This is a lawyer who can see the future.

It's a legal designer who knows what needs and what requirements from a legal perspective, and can then align technology with those requirements and that perspective. Scale. Impacts. Changes. Needs. Limits.

We have entered the era of the CLTO - Chief Legal Technology Officer.

A lawyer who can think Law into the life of the technology.

For law firms, for large corporates, for collectives of start-up and companies. Smart lawyers today should begin studying code, and developers should be patient and humble along with them, and each with each another.

Lawyers and Developers need one another in the new era of the CLTO.

And BRRREAKING! As we go to press Big Four Accounting Giant KPMG announces it will DO LEGAL WITH TECHNOLOGY. At what point do we stop calling this, “adjacent”?

CLTO, we can lock lawyers into the motherboard!