You have to check out this press release from CaseCentral regarding “predictions” for 2011. They include the following:

• Historical documents such as the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the Salic Law and the Constitution of the United States of America are shredded in order to prove consistency with new governmental document retention policies.
• eDiscovery technology advances to become an end-to-end, fully-automated, system whereby cases are filed, investigated, tried and judged with no human intervention whatsoever, and sanctions and judgments are delivered via Twitter.
• The FRCP runs out of letters and numbers with 8356889427885631288896(q)(2)(z)(4) and is forced to simplify procedure rules.

From Prism Legal’s Strategic Legal Technology:

Last week the Times Online published Eversheds report looks at how ‘perfect storm’ will affect the legal profession (18 Mar 2010), which provided an advance look at “Law firm of the 21st century – The clients: revolution – An Eversheds report on the post-recession legal sector in 2010″. The report, due for general release on March 22, is a fascinating read – bad news for Big Law but good news for legal tech managers and outsourcers.

Eversheds bases its report on a survey of 130 general counsel and 80 law firm partners about the state and future of the legal market. The firm concludes that “the revolution has now arrived”. And it is not a good one for Big Law. Interestingly, Evershed’s research finds that the recession was not so much the driver of change as the catalyst for it. Driving the change are four secular trends:
• globalisation – the move to the East
• increasing professionalism and status of the General Counsel
• technology
• the Legal Services Act in the UK.

Strategic Legal Technology – Eversheds: “the revolution has now arrived”

Love this list of top 10 “predictions from StoredIQ:

By now, no doubt, you’ve seen and read many of the articles, blogs, reports, and Tweets discussing predictions for the eDiscovery and Information Management markets in 2010.  We’d like to take this opportunity to also offer yet another set of predictions that we feel may have been missed by other pundits, analysts, contributors, vendors, and service providers in the market space.  In no particular order:

1. The EDRM will get a “fresh look” with pastel colors and a couple of more stages, just to keep everyone on their toes.
2. Bono holds charity concert for attorneys buried in ESI; Angelina Jolie adopts one.
3. Petabyte is the new terabyte.
4. There will be mergers and acquisitions. I know, shocking.
5. Lady Gaga releases remix single “eDisco Stick“.
6. Apple gets into the game, but iDiscovery comes only in white and loadfiles are 99 cents.
7. New CBS spin off: “ESI: Boston”.
8. Everyone agrees on a single definition for Information Management; world peace ensues.
9. Responding to the Tiger Woods scandal, player agents, lawyers and professional athletes will rush to find ESI solutions and develop new policies around texting, Tweeting, and Facebooking.
10. The Mayans were wrong. The earth will come to an end in 2010, not 2012, under the weight of all the unstructured ESI in the world.