Category Archives: Chapter 3: Technology and the Private Practice
TIG-funded Webinar Helps Legal Aid Providers Weigh Benefits and Risks of the Cloud
Providing legal aid via the web incurs a number of benefits and risks, many of which are discussed in this video.
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Ron Friedmann, The Business Case for Delivering Legal Advice Over the Web (2001).
Ron Friedmann examines the economics of creating and maintaining online legal services, and expounds upon the business incentives for law firms to implement such services. Moreover, Friedmann discusses the practicalities of providing quality online legal services, their structural benefits for … Continue reading
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William Hornsby, Challenging the Academy to a Dual (Perspective): The Need to Embrace Lawyering for Personal Legal Services, Maryland Law Review (2011)
William Hornsby examines the changes to the nature and structure of law practice over the last half century. Providers of personal legal services in areas such as domestic relations, personal real estate transactions, and individual debtor’s bankruptcies have been transformed by … Continue reading
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Stephanie Kimbro, Practicing Law Online; Creating a Web-Based Virtual Law Office (2010).
Stephanie Kimbro examines the ethical implications of the “virtual law practice.” Maintenance of client confidentiality in the web-based world carries a number of new problems to face, and the attorneys facing them must have at least a basic understanding of … Continue reading
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Marc Lauritsen, “Fall In Line with Document Assembly” (2006).
Marc Lauritsen provides a brief overview of document assembly services available in 2006, and their quick development since the 1970s. Lauritsen lists the basic tenets of such services, current offerings in the field, and their benefits to clients and firms … Continue reading
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Legal Industry Startups: An Overview
Richard Granat offers a survey of new legal industry start-ups that, despite not being law firms, are drastically affecting clients’ expectations of services. IT-based ventures see the legal services industry as “ripe for disruption,” as law firms have failed to … Continue reading
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Gillian Hadfield, Legal Barriers to Innovation: The Growing Economic Cost of Professional Control Over Corporate Legal Markets (2008)
This paper focuses on the significant and increasing costs of self-regulation for a core market in which legal services are provided: services to corporate and other business entities. Hadfield notes that the procedural complexity of the law, “rooted in the … Continue reading
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Lawrence Cunningham, Language, Deals and Standards: The Future of XML Contracts (2006).
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) structures information in documentary systems ranging from financial reports to medical records and business contracts. XML standards for specific applications are developed spontaneously by self-appointed technologists or entrepreneurs. XML’s social and economic stakes are considerable, especially … Continue reading
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Darryl Mountain, Could New Technologies Cause Great Law Firms to Fail? (2001)
In this article from 2001, Darryl Mountain warns that law firms that do not embrace information technology, and reinvent themselves accordingly, are doomed in the increasingly technological marketplace. The efficiencies and capabilities of those firms that do embrace IT and … Continue reading
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eLawyering and the Future of Legal Work by William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2010)
This bibliography lists scholarly works relevant to the topics of eLawyering and automation of legal services. eLawyering and the Future of Legal Work by William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2010).
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