Bob Ambrogi’s Most-Read Posts Of 2021
Twenty twenty-one has been a year of uncertainty for the legal profession, as we have wrestled with the question of returning or not returning. Whether it has been to the office, the courtroom, or legal conferences, we have been unsure whether to go back or not.
Perhaps that explains why my most-read post of the year was one I wrote in August, just a week before ILTACON, explaining why I had decided to reverse course and not attend in person. This was the International Legal Technology Association’s return to a live event, and I had fully intended to be there in the flesh. But, amid a new surge in COVID cases, I had evaluated the risks and rewards and came down on the side of caution.
Every year since 2010, I have compiled a list of my most-popular posts. Last year, I was surprised to see that, in a year dominated by the onset of the pandemic, my top-read stories had nothing to do with the pandemic. Rather, they were about ransomware attacks, regulatory reform, industry news, and new legal research tools.
Similarly this year, although the ILTACON post was my most read, the others had nothing to do with the pandemic. Instead, they were about technology competence, regulatory reform, and an assortment of mergers, acquisitions, investments and IPOs.
California’s adoption of the duty of technology competence was the second most-read story, followed by the merger of legal research services Fastcase and Casemaker – news I equated to a wedding announcement jointly issued by the Hatfields and the McCoys – and MyCase’s quiet acquisitions of case management platform CASEpeer and document automation software Woodpecker.
One episode of my LawNext podcast made the top-15 list: My interview with Coca-Cola GC Bradley M. Gayton, on dramatic measures he adopted to increase diversity among outside counsel. Two months later, Gayton was out at Coca-Cola, just eight months into his tenure there.
How I List TheseNote that I have two lists here. First, I list the 15 most popular posts of 2021, listing only posts first published during 2021. After that, I list the most popular posts of the year, without regard to the year the post was originally published. In both cases, the rankings are based only on 2021 traffic, not all-time traffic.
Neither ranking includes two static pages that are consistently in the top 15, my list of legal tech startups and my tally of the states that have adopted the duty of technology competence. I have also excluded any posts relating to ballots and voting for the Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, as those posts receive inflated numbers of hits.
For somewhat of a time capsule of the past decade in legal technology, see my prior years’ lists of my most-popular posts: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010).
Top 15 of 2021 – First Published in 2021What will be next year’s top stories? That, I can say with great certainty, is anyone’s guess.
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