The Future of Lawyers: The Impact of Legal Tech, AI, Big Data and Online Courts

Here we talk about the future role of layers, how their job will change, and how they can best prepare for the 4th industrial revolution.

[@pancitoconcoca8007]

I´m not a lawyer or an engineer, but a regular programmer that started a business. We use to make quite a lot of contracts per day (not anything crazy legal but regular commercial contracts) I was so tired of making the contracts by hand that I made an automatic contract generator. It was a life-changer for our business and it was so easy, yet so helpful, that even my lawyer friends got amazed by how easy it was to work with this type of tech. So another business is being born out of that "frustration" since I saw how desperate nowadays lawyers are, and now we are working to build a more friendly-user contract generator (BTW I´m from Latin America so we don´t have any of the techy legal tools that exist in English speaking countries)

[@takudzwanyamupa8872]

hey man i find this very inspirational. Im a law student and im really also get started with background and basics of programming. Any advice on how to get started my goal is to have a legal tech start up.

[@janellekhlincoln4177]

Thank you Bernard

[@rdreidmehrabi]

@@takudzwanyamupa8872 many ways but each requires you to bring something to the party apart from just your law degree

[@federicogomezmuriel3231]

Hi, I'm from Colombia and I finishing the college as Law student. I want to make my LegalTech company too.

[@Xarabek]

@@takudzwanyamupa8872 have you made it yet? how is it going?

[@rdreidmehrabi]

I was a lawyer, now I am a software developer. This is spot on re challenges to the profession.

[@rajasafeer7483]

Hy can we run both the professions at the same time.

[@hodihodi9272]

I'm writing a bachelor thesis on this subject of legal tech, and I have to say this interview is so helpful to understand the ways in which legal tech is going to/already is, replacing certain practices, and in which ways it follows other sectors (such as health) in that manner.

[@cameronchurchill2749]

Hello Hodi Hodi. My name is Cameron, I'm a 3rd year law student in New Zealand. I'm going to do my honours thesis on the same subject. I'd love to have a look at your work!

[@hodihodi9272]

@@cameronchurchill2749 Hey Cameron my thesis is in Danish, as I'm a Danish student - however I'd suggest trying to interview the lawyers, it-managers and partners both in the private and public domain. But overall I think the most important findings we had, was that Legal Tech as a whole is something that'll shape the future of law and law practice. We already see it somewhat low-technology wise with things such as E-Signing for onboarding new clients remotely. We also found that most lawyers knew about AI solutions, but that they were more a UK/USA thing, as those lawfirms typically have the capacity to develop or purchase AI solutions. These solutions could include e.g. document-searching, predictability and further automation of "breadwork" (meaning rutine work that usually is low-effect but has to be done), so that'd entail things such as writing contracts etc.

[@user-vl5uf8tg3b]

Bernard, thank you for this great interview

[@bernardmarr]

Glad you liked it 😊

[@janellekhlincoln4177]

god bless you

[@TriPham-xd9wk]

In military legal involve classified cover and chain of command even make extremely sought can can be unfair

[@siddarthsubrahmanyam1538]

So, The future of law is at stake with the automation and technology booming and thriving at an uncontrollable pace?

[@aek12]

Look at estonia. No lawyers. A happy society than with lawyers.

[@pinetworkminer8377]

@@aek12 Are you 100% sure Estonia has no lawyers/solicitors at all? Not even judges? Where did you get your info?

[@rubenk6]

@@pinetworkminer8377 Source: I made it up

[@gregbrown5554]

In hindsight, attorneys salaries of the 20th century were highly overrated. Marketing advocacy pumped up their profession and they got away with it all over the world. As a business man in 2020, with a background in Computer Information Systems, I have one trusted 28 year old attorney. I am competent in law, business 4.0, data analytics, offshore tax avoidance and movie making. I refuse to hire a lawyer solely on the basis of his or her title, degrees hanging in their respective office or their "sexy" websites. I am proudly self taught for these Quantum 2020's. Guernsey, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Caymans, Mauritius, The Netherlands, Wall Street, Chicago, Botswana, Israel, Ireland, Brazil, Switzerland, Liberia, Delaware, Bermuda insurance companies, China and Australia expert right here. Thank you again Bernard.

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Yes, they were overpriced.

[@aek12]

You will be a good fix in estonia.

[@heenaahmed4306]

Who is the speaker? You havent mentioned it in the description above. Thanks.

[@babsgrayson8432]

Richard Susskind. His name pops up at some point, nearly missed it.

[@TriPham-xd9wk]

And international trade involve so much money is tought

[@TheCookie9007]

Great interview. Awful sound.

[@janellelincoln9530]

Amen

[@babsgrayson8432]

What is the speaker's name?

[@pablocrespo42]

Richard Susskind

[@aek12]

It is just a matter of time. All lawyers will be replaced by tech. lawyers are just too expensive.