Danny Martin Katz of Michigan State University's ReInvent Law Laboratory is recruiting law students with an interest in technology. He told the ABA Journal: 'The part [of the legal profession] that is actually growing… need people with particular sets of skills who have domain expertise and can build software that works to solve legal problems….They need lawyers who know the law, understand software and technology, and [know] how to mesh the two.'

He is teaching the development of products which he has himself invested in - including prediction technology which helps lawyers calculate if a client has a case, the odds of winning and the arguments which have the highest probability of success. He believes that the discovery units of litigation groups are the most open to this kind of high-tech approach. He continues: 'Discovery is where it clearly makes sense. When I talk to lead discovery law firm partners, they say that they need people with these skills and would rather take a person like that than someone currently in their organizations.'