Abstract
The chapter explores how the legal profession is in the process of transformation and how technology is having a profound impact on the market for legal services. It considers how law firms are exploring how they tech-enable legal processes to rethink the practice of law, and how they are mixing law and technology to develop new products to improve current ways of working. It considers why law students need to be aware of the trends that are impacting on the legal profession and discusses the new roles that are emerging within law firms, legal technology companies, in-house legal departments and alternative legal suppliers that focus on innovation and technology. It identifies how a range of new jobs are emerging from legal project management to legal engineers, legal technologists and data scientists. It reflects on how we will still need lawyers to provide legal advice, but we will also require legal technology specialists and people who can bridge the gap between lawyers and technologists. The chapter concludes with a consideration of how the legal profession is evolving and how law students must be interested in law and the business of law, able to work in multidisciplinary teams and want to continue to learn
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Digital Lawyering |
| Subtitle of host publication | Technology and Legal Practice in the 21st Century |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Number of pages | 36 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780367260781 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Nov 2021 |