With budgets under pressure, IT heads are scrambling to adapt to consumerisation, contain costs and find ways to capture and manage commercially crucial data. Neil Hodge tracks the latest trends in legal tech

With the global economy facing another year of sluggish growth, law firms are faced with an increasingly precarious balancing act regarding technology. While capital spending in IT is often one of the first areas to suffer during tough trading conditions, clients and staff have rising expectations of technology.