What the article fails to discuss is what advances in the technology will push adoption over the tipping point. Are the algorithms going to get better? Are faster computers going to make until-now infeasible techniques practical? Is access to the Internet and big data going to make the difference? Legal automation technology has actually been around for quite awhile, and has seem limited uptake. So we&#x27;re not at the point in the technology curve where we can just assume exponential improvements in the quality of the technology.[1]<p>And the limited uptake has not been for want of trying. There are plenty of firms that don&#x27;t do document review in-house that would jump at the opportunity to take bigger cases away from mega-firms by leveraging technology. But the reality doesn&#x27;t quite live up to the marketing. The overwhelming trend has been towards outsourcing work previously done by associates to low-priced contract attorneys, but even that shift seems to have reached a point of equilibrium.<p>[1] A good example is spelling and grammar correction. Word isn&#x27;t much better at it than it was 15 years ago. You still can&#x27;t do search and replace that fixes conjugation and numerical agreement.