A profession that has been important to the culture of the world since its beginning is the profession of law. Each country has a culture of its own and has its own system formed to enforce those designated codes and standards.
With the increasing speed of technology nowadays, it is often difficult for the government to keep up with technological crimes and how technology affects the law in good and bad ways. Technology allows thieves to get another individual’s information through email and internet scams, and other ways to allow crimes to happen. While on the good side, technology allows communication to thrive into the legal profession to allow better outputs of their jobs for their clients. Technology offers technology communication solution for conveyancers and legal professionals and empowers lawmakers to deliver by giving them a competitive edge. In a way, it speeds up the quoting process on the field of the legal profession, manage the referral network and engage with clients through a convenient, integrated and easy to use online platform. Here are some of the ways of how technology impacts the legal industry.
- Forensic Audits. A lot of legal professionals work with accountants, law enforcement and other government agencies to defend or prosecute people who are being accused of crimes and other fraudulent activities. The Information Technology (IT) tools and problem-solving skills are what legal professional often use and help lawyers who work on cases that involve personal injury, family law, insurance, and financial services law cases.
- Data Analytics. Gathering data for marketing efforts have helped increase the sales for many companies and helped them to provide a greater level of customer service. In the same way, lawyers can use IT data analytics to catch unethical business people involved in money laundering schemes and other fraudulent activities.
- Research and Administration. Although some legal professionals do not work on forensic audit and fraud cases, they can still make use of IT tools to fulfill their tasks – lawyers and paralegals can subscribe to legal research repositories to find the latest information about case law relating to specific industries and businesses.
- Immigration Law: Online Applications. While the applicants still have to fill out the same areas asked for information with the same level of detail, but the time spent processing the form will decrease, they can also check spelling mistakes or clerical errors holding up a case.
- Conveyancing: Tech Startups Reign. There is always room for change about property searching sites that were disrupting the homeowners’ industry through the form of tech-led conveyancing companies. The rise of the digital platform for conveyancing services is all set to distrust the industry of homeowners hoping to sell that would have once had to seek the services of conveyancing solicitors.
Paralegals and lawyers have spent a great deal of their time in law libraries and law offices preparing for cases before the rise of the widespread use of IT in the legal profession. To conclude, the rise of modern technology makes legal research more efficient wherein legal firms reassess their entire organizational structure and become leaner to compete with other law offices.
