LegalTech on the Rise: Technology Changes Legal Work Behaviours, But Does Not Replace Its Profession

Bues, Micha-Manuel; Matthaei, Emilio

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“…The overlap between the three streams and phases of legal tech is shown in Figure 1. In addition to legal design, which can support the drafting of contracts by structuring the process flow and simplifying legal content (Kohlmeier and Santuber, 2020), there have been attempts to enhance contracting practices by employing machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), blockchain, and other fashionable technologies (Bues and Matthaei, 2017). Most recently, there have been calls for a common legal platform (CLP) in which different legal tech solutions would be consolidated and harmonised.…”

Section: Legal Techmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As mentioned earlier, this study also investigates whether there exist any distinctive features and challenges in designing legal products and services compared to designing in other domains. Previous research has highlighted the difficulties of digitalisation in law due to legal tech's threat to current modes of work, the intellectually intensive nature of legal work, and the lack of technical competencies and skills in the legal profession (Bues and Matthaei, 2017;Kronblad and Pregmark, 2019). However, it is questionable whether the law is that special in this regard.…”

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“…Legal technology or 'legal tech' broadly refers to the adoption of innovative and often disruptive technology (typically some sort of software) to streamline and enhance legal work (Corrales et al, 2019). According to some researchers, legal tech can also include any technology or software used in the legal profession (Bues and Matthaei, 2017), including Word, Outlook, or computers, for that matter (Tolvanen and Toivonen, 2021). Nevertheless, most studies report on legal tech solutions in which familiarity with text processing, email, and other basic technologies is implied.…”

Section: Legal Techmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing for Legal Practitioners: Lessons Learned From Legal Tech Development and Implementation

Đurić,

Martinec,

Porobija

et al. 2023

Proc. Des. Soc.

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Recently, the design and digitalisation approaches have become increasingly utilised in the legal context, typically under the names of legal design and legal tech. One of their goals is to help legal practitioners be more efficient and to provide better quality and more comprehensive legal services. Also, given that both movements rely heavily on participatory and co-design, they will require increased support not only from design practitioners but also from design researchers and educators. Therefore, this paper investigates, from a design research viewpoint, the opportunities and challenges of developing and implementing legal tech, with a particular focus on legal practitioners. It reports on four cases of designing legal tech solutions and their implementation in a law firm. The main insights are related to the importance of value perception through participatory and co-design, the need for efficient and effective testing methodologies, and the opportunity to test a wide range of design methods and tools in the legal context. The paper also complements the legal design and legal tech literature with additional arguments on why designing in the legal context is challenging compared to designing in other domains.

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Designing for Legal Practitioners: Lessons Learned From Legal Tech Development and Implementation

Đurić,

Martinec,

Porobija

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“…The Law Society of England is the professional body representing solicitors in England and Wales. For example, there are those who understand Legaltech as solutions for lawyers who do their work cheaper and efficient (Bues and Matthaei 2017), while Lawtech would be legal self-services for small companies and without the need for lawyers.…”

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Legaltech and Lawtech: Global Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities

Alcayde

2021

Laws

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Legaltech refers to the application of new technologies to the world of law, to carry out tasks that, until recently, were performed by lawyers or other personnel working in law firms. From 2015 onwards the Lawtech alternative has emerged. In this work, the concepts of Legaltech and Lawtech have been analyzed by searching the two main scientific information databases such as Scopus and Wed of Science (WoS). There has been a clear trend to use the concept of Legaltech against Lawtech. Six clear research lines have been detected from the whole of the published documents regarding these concepts. These are the related to Computer Science, Justice, Legal profession, Legal design, Law firms, and Legal Education. It is proposed to use the term Legaltech to include all technological advances in the legal field. From the point of view of opportunities, the irruption of Legaltech will be able to offer accurate legal advice to the public, reducing the price of this and on the other hand, analyze large amounts of data that law firms and legal advisors will use to improve their management and increase their productivity. In short, Legaltech and Lawtech are opening up new opportunities in the legal sector encouraging technological innovation, giving greater access to legal services, even try to achieve the goal of universal access to justice.

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“…The aforementioned excerpt advocates that AI will augment legal services by eliminating the need for lawyers to spend hours on tedious menial work. This would enable lawyers to invest available time to engage in meticulous, creative and judicious legal reasoning (Bues & Matthaei, 2017). However, with automation of legal work, lawyers are still required to review the tasks performed by AI (Remus & Levy, 2017).…”

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Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on the Legal Fraternity

Bhavani

Thuraisingam

2022

UUM Journal of Legal Studies

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The article endeavors to analyze the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal fraternity. There have been various reports on the impact and challenges of AI in the legal fraternity in recent years. AI is used to perform legal work previously completed solely by human lawyers. The rise of AI technology has caused a great deal of apprehension among members of the legal fraternity both in Malaysia and globally. AI promises to disrupt the substratum of how legal work is practiced and delivered. Nevertheless, there are implications encountered by the legal fraternity in adopting AI in legal practice such as ethical responsibility, algorithm bias, data privacy and the lack of regulations for AI. The doctrinal method was employed in conducting this study. The primary objective of this article is to evaluate the implications of AI adoption in the legal fraternity and to propose recommendations for better integration of AI in the legal industry.

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LegalTech on the Rise: Technology Changes Legal Work Behaviours, But Does Not Replace Its Profession

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Designing for Legal Practitioners: Lessons Learned From Legal Tech Development and Implementation

Designing for Legal Practitioners: Lessons Learned From Legal Tech Development and Implementation

Legaltech and Lawtech: Global Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities

Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on the Legal Fraternity

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