Lawyers come handy on several occasions: during the winter holidays, they also serve as informal oracles. Indeed, legal experts tend to be involved in top-edge matters and get exposed to crucial and sensitive issues well before the general public. Hence their enhanced capability to foresee the new problems and upcoming trends.
This scenario is even more true for the Intellectual Property and Technology team operating here at DLA Piper, the largest international law firm in Italy. This position gives us a privileged perspective on legal and technology trends and hot topics in Italy as well as internationally.
Indeed, we were among the first ones to point out to clients the GDPR revolution, well before everyone jumped in the bandwagon in 2018; we did follow the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court step by step when they become real and then when they were pushed back in time. We learned how to provide firsthand advice to clients on cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and blockchain back when these topics were pure IT issues for most law firms.
Let's, however, put aside past success stories; it is far more relevant to try to use the lenses provided by our recent and current experiences to focus on trends and hot topics that in our opinion will contribute to shaping the legal scene, and the business in general, during the next year.
As you will see, a significant number of our forecasts is strictly related to technology and technical innovations. Not by chance. Indeed, IP&T lawyers and professionals are, by definition, exposed to technological developments, and most of the top issues we face in our day-by-day operations are originated and led by new technologies.
There is however another reason behind the prominent role of technology versus pure legislative innovation in our forecasts: many of our clients operate in extremely advanced environments, where laws and regulations tend to be systematically under construction. Our clients and their business, not the laws, are the drivers of change. The lawmaker's intervention comes, later on, most of the time, when we already contributed, with our advice, to understanding and framing the novel legal issues posed by emerging and evolving technologies.
In this book, we do a similar exercise, providing a glimpse of the world and on the incoming changes as we see them from here.

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