Category Archives: Disrupting Legal Practice

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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).

Darryl Mountain discusses an ongoing shift in the practice of law, as information technology and document assembly services take hold in the law practice business model. Mountain discusses the benefits of embracing such technology, as well as the barriers which … Continue reading →

Jonathan Jenkins notes that “much of current legal work is embarrassingly, absurdly, wasteful.” While information technology has taken firm root in the workplace routines of most every industry, practitioners of law are lagging in their embrace of all that IT … Continue reading →