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Poll: Which of these 10 legal tech innovations is most important?

Writer Jason Krause picked 100 innovations in legal technology to feature in April and we picked 10 of those that were the most important of the lot.

Now it’s your turn to tell us which of the 10 truly has had the biggest impact on the legal profession.

  • 2.25% -- ABA Model Rules of Profesional Conduct (8 votes)
  • 31.27% -- Unbundling/Outsourcing (111 votes)
  • 5.92% -- Billable hour (21 votes)
  • 2.54% -- Lawyer advertising (9 votes)
  • 2.25% -- Virtual law firm (8 votes)
  • 1.69% -- Mobile lawyering (6 votes)
  • 12.68% -- Computerized word processing (45 votes)
  • 0.28% -- Fingerprinting (1 votes)
  • 7.04% -- Digitized research (25 votes)
  • 34.08% -- DNA evidence (121 votes)

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