UK legal departments are slower than their US counterparts to embrace technological innovations, a survey shows.
More than 2,000 senior in-house counsel were surveyed about a range of technologies by market researchers Acritas.
The results showed a quarter of UK legal departments were not using any of the technologies investigated, compared to 11% in the US. Overall, UK in-house counsel were less likely than those in the US to be using every technology mentioned in the survey.
E-signatures, for example, were used by 61% of US legal departments compared to 49% of Mainland European and 37% of UK legal departments.
Lisa Hart Shepherd, CEO at Acritas, said: ‘We expected the US to lead on the use of litigation related technologies, but the UK is using less of everything we tested.’
