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Legal Technology

Dictionairee Entry

Literal Meaning

Any software used in the practice or business of law, including time recording, billing, document management, e-discovery, research and drafting tools.

Buzzword Usage

An umbrella so wide that a time-recording package from 1998 and a language model sit underneath it, which is convenient for a conference programme and useless for a buyer comparing two products.

Why It’s Fluff

  • Umbrella Without Edges: A category admitting everything cannot tell a buyer anything about anything inside it.
  • Shared Label, Unshared Substance: Two vendors described identically may have no overlap in what they actually do.
  • House-Cleaning Reality Check: Like a single aisle labelled "household items" holding both the bleach and the birthday candles.

Reality Check

Love Island (Season 8): every arrival is introduced as looking for love, a description shared by everyone in the villa and therefore telling nobody anything about any of them.

The Operational Reality

The Marketing Label

β€œWe are a leading legal technology provider serving firms worldwide.”

The Operational Reality

β€œA category covering everything from time recording to language models, which says nothing about what a product does.”

Suggested Plain English

Any software used in the practice or business of law.

Example Buzzword Phrase

β€œWe are a leading legal technology provider serving firms worldwide.”

Example Plain English

β€œWe sell document management software to mid-sized firms.”

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