It’s only the seventh day of the new year and one may be forgiven for thinking: ‘OK, that’s enough of 2021, let’s fast-forward to 2022.’ But, we can’t change time and this year is going to be another roller-coaster for sure. In particular it’s going to be a year of stark contrasts in the legal tech and wider commercial legal world. Global Downturn vs Commercial Law Firms Doing Well People outside of the world of commercial law may assume that things are not going well in this part of the economy, that huge firms with thousands of lawyers spread from New York to London to Singapore have little to do when the global economy looks so weak and is projected to see a halving in growth. But, that is not so.