I wanted to understand the scope of LegalTech within Indian law firms, particularly in Tier-1 firms that have digital innovation or legal innovation teams. How do these teams typically function, and what kind of work do they handle?

Also, would it be advisable to combine a LegalTech focus with a TMT practice, similar to the model followed by teams such as Nikhil Narendran's at Trilegal? Do you see long-term growth and opportunities in this intersection of technology law and legal innovation?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

If you're genuinely interested in LegalTech, joining a law firm is probably the worst way to pursue it. The LegalTech team at Trilegal is a bit of a misnomer, as it largely involves liasoning with and evaluating external vendors and solutions (partly because of the Lucio investment).

Even other firms like Kco and CAM have innovation teams that don't really build their own solutions. If you're genuinely interested in building something in the legaltech space, joining a startup is probably your best bet.

Knowing your way around AI tools like Claude Code is another thing tho – I think every lawyer, not even specifically TMT ones, should be dabbling in this and try to automate their work as much as possible; because if you don't, the guy next to you will and he'll be able to do significantly more work than you.

I recently started working in legal tech as a recent graduate. The field has come long way and very interesting milestones during the last 5 years. Please be informed about the whole buzz of legal tech which provides low paying document review, clm, and e discovery jobs. These jobs existed way before ai dropped in and mind numbing like corporate due diligence or litigation grunt work.

I wanted to solve tough problems at the intersection of law and tech. Went through very different pathway of trying to build legal tech products , strategize it , under stand it way deeply( sometimes obsess over it) and fail at it. It gives that balance between innovation, legal ,building thrill and if you went well the freedom to work remotely with decent enough pay( a intersection of job satisfaction and work life balance rarely possible in lndian legal industry) I converted few legal tech roles which were low paying though the work was interesting(that was my first criteria to apply ), though not joined . Later on , I got a balanced one. Just to give an idea , if you are good at it , you can also get around 50k for even less than 3-4 hours of work everyday, remotely. But the tough part is to find these opportunities you have to go pretty deep into legal tech job market as well as good at what you do and not bluffing. In general, get around a lakh for normal office work hours. The salaries mentioned above are for freshers. Don't go towards law firms innovation teams in terms of learning but can give a good idea of user and adoption experience.

The reality is the job description and roles for the legal tech are still evolving atleast in Indian legal tech market.