A couple weeks ago, I attended the Legal Tech Fund Summit and spoke on a panel with some other recently funded tech founders.

Someone asked us for predictions for the next five years.  Mine surprised the room.

I said that legal tech, as a category, will not exist. 

For years, we grouped all technology for legal professionals under one umbrella. The assumption was that lawyers are a single audience. Whether they were in-house, at a firm, in government, or in a startup, they supposedly had similar needs. A JD was the unifying principle. 

AI breaks that assumption. Agentic systems require deep personalization. They need to understand the specific role someone plays, the type of decisions they make, and the rhythms of the organization they operate in. They must adapt to the user, not the category. 

A commercial counsel at a global enterprise does not work the same way as a litigation associate at a law firm. A regulatory specialist does not think like an employment attorney.  

These differences are not small. They are foundational. 

As AI pulls more of the workflow into the fabric of the business, the tools will fracture along these lines. The umbrella of “legal tech” will dissolve because it is no longer meaningful. The future will be built around role-specific intelligence, not profession-level software. 

Omar Haroun

CEO, Co-Founder, Eudia

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