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Digital Technologies, Legal Design and the Future of the Legal Profession

In: Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Blockchain

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  • Marcelo Corrales

    (Academia Sinica)

  • Mark Fenwick

    (Kyushu University)

  • Helena Haapio

    (University of Vaasa, Business Law)

Abstract

Legal TechnologyLegal technology —or “Legal TechLegal Tech ”—is disrupting the traditional operations and self-understanding of the legal professionLegal profession . This chapter introduces the central claim of this book, namely that these developments are having and will continue to have a disruptive effect on the work of lawyersLawyers and that adapting to this new operating environment is crucial for legal professionals remaining relevant in an increasingly technologyTechnology -driven world. The chapter outlines some of the main features of this on-going transformation process, describes some of the pressures it is creating for lawyersLawyers , and provides short summaries of the chapters that comprise this collection.

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  • Marcelo Corrales & Mark Fenwick & Helena Haapio, 2019. "Digital Technologies, Legal Design and the Future of the Legal Profession," Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation, in: Marcelo Corrales & Mark Fenwick & Helena Haapio (ed.), Legal Tech, Smart Contracts and Blockchain, pages 1-15, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:perchp:978-981-13-6086-2_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6086-2_1
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    1. Salvatore Caserta, 2020. "Digitalization of the Legal Field and the Future of Large Law Firms," Laws, MDPI, vol. 9(2), pages 1-23, June.

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