One of the great paradoxes of the legal profession is that lawyers are stereotyped as allergic to technology and, at the same time, are at the forefront of how society interacts with technological advancement.

The Annual Meeting of the Association of Corporate Counsel in Las Vegas, which I attended last week, provided a first-hand opportunity to explore this thesis.

For one thing, an entire convention hall was filled with legal-tech companies vying for attention with conference baits like headphone raffles, lavender-sprayed brochures, and even movie-star selfies. Something about the transactional nature of such exchanges would seem to reinforce the stereotype: “Well, I’ll demo your new gadget if you give me a kid’s toy I can take home to the family”…