USA is leader of legal technology

When it comes to legal technology, the United States is its "spiritual home," according to Kieran Flatt's story in Legal IT.

The oft-quoted axiom that "whenever America sneezes, the rest of the world catches ‘flu" holds as true for legal technology as it does for popular culture and international relations.

The article describes the U.S.'s leadership role in 1) electronic discovery, 2) outsourcing, 3) data centralization, 4) data warehousing, 5) collaboration tools, and 6) mobile computing.