TRU founder and CEO Jared Coseglia returns to Law Journal Newsletters to provide his unmatched market vision with a two-part article about the legal tech job market. Check out this deep dive into the specific cause-and-effect paradigms impacting the data privacy and e-discovery verticals, illustrating broader trends in the overall legal technology job market while simultaneously giving professionals in (or eager to be in) those disciplines a clear roadmap of where the legal technology, data privacy, and ESI job market was, is today, and will be in the future.
For the legal technology job market, the first half of 2020 is a tale of two realities. The undeniable momentum of job growth seen in 2019 has been shattered by the equally incontestable effect of the coronavirus and other recent sociopolitical events on the legal technology job market. The trends that propelled job acceleration in the bulk of the first quarter of 2020 have reconfigured since mid-March, creating new priorities for hiring managers and executive stakeholders and thus new, though perhaps not as voluminous, opportunities for some professionals in the space.