People tend to think of the law as slow-moving, immutable and disconnected from daily life. And lawyers have a reputation of being cautious and resistant to change. But in fact, when technology or sweeping changes are necessary to better serve their clients, improve access to justice or simply make their work easier, lawyers can be pretty progressive.

In April 2015, the ABA Journal created a list of 100 technological, intellectual and practical innovations that have fundamentally changed the way law is practiced. Here are the top 10 innovations which changed the practice of law forever.

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Captions written by Jason Krause.