Legal Technology
Legal tech is a cutting-edge domain that is about to change the way lawyers, judges, and any other experts and specialists in law do their jobs. What is it all about? How exactly does it work? Is it even legit? Here, we explore the effects of the technology on our lives, as well as the way it may evolve, and all the legal aspects it entails along the way.
Premonition’s Toby Unwin: I Think the Fundamental Problem With Law Is That Financial Incentives Are Misaligned
The legal industry is evolving. The mechanic routine tasks are now more often automated, leaving legal professionals with more time to work on complex problems and make strategic decisions. Or at least that’s what law firms want us to think. In order to figure out what’s going on with the modern legal industry and legal …
Lean Thinking and the Legal Industry: Where We Are Today
The legal industry is facing historic challenges. Technology has reached the point where it is making an impact on legal services delivery. Outside the industry, people are experiencing rapid change in every aspect of their lives. New questions and issues arise that demand fresh ways of looking at how to do things. Yet, through all …
Serving Justice Online: Online Dispute Resolution as an Alternative to Traditional Litigation
New technologies make routine tasks easier, faster, more efficient. Now they are taking over court systems and traditional means of legislation. Online Dispute Resolution (ODR), a method of dealing with conflicts outside traditional courts, was super hyped at the dawn of the millennium. The most intriguing part was the fresh perspective on the access to justice, …
AXDRAFT CEO Yuriy Zaremba: AXDRAFT Appeared as a Solution to Ease My Own Pain
As we tread into the future world of digital entertainment, digital friends and digital currencies, it becomes ever more obvious that the inherently conservative legal industry has to become digital as well. It’s been more than a decade since legal tech services became popular tools for e-discovery and automating other lawyers’ and paralegals routine tasks. …
KeepSolid CEO Vasiliy Ivanov: We Believe GDPR Is a Good Intention
In the digital age, many commercial companies and even governments think of going paperless, and some even weigh on shifting towards cashless economy. The reasons for that urge are fairly obvious: it’s friendly to the environment, it’s convenient, and, of course, it’s cost-effective. However, there’s still a long way to go until even our signatures …
Electronic Signatures and DocuSign
How many times have you seen an agreement that needs to be signed in a specific place? Given the time spent to arrange a meeting, get to the destination, and actually get the contract signed, it could be quite an endeavor. That’s where the e-signature market that is expected to grow seriously by 2020 comes …