{"id":766,"date":"2019-08-02T13:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legal-tech-nerd.de\/legaltech-what-is-this\/"},"modified":"2019-08-02T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T11:39:10","slug":"legaltech-what-is-this","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legal-tech-nerd.de\/en\/legaltech-what-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":"LegalTech – What is this?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Digitisation
of the legal sector
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For some time now, the digitization of the legal market has been the subject of heated discussions between all participants.<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Everyone<\/strong> involved?<\/p>\n

Not quite, a not inconsiderable proportion (some even think the majority) of professionals, both in law firms and in the legal departments of companies, are firmly convinced that this topic certainly (no longer) concerns them and\/or that it is mainly a hype that will soon be over anyway.
\nThis attitude is not surprising, technical innovations have always had a hard time in this economic sector and if they are finally used, one would like to use these technologies as long as possible (keyword: fax, which still has to be used in Germany for many communications e.g. between courts and lawyers ).<\/p>\n

Those who take a more positive “approach” to this topic have usually more or less painfully “been allowed” to state that new technologies could indeed open up interesting possibilities, but for their concrete legal activities they “always lack something” in order to be used “meaningfully” in the law firm \/ legal department. (Except for a use in the context of a marketing activity to show the client or the board: “Hey, we are totally hip and can do LegalTech”)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The topic is cut off with it, back to the agenda and watch the disappearance of this \"fad\" calmly? <\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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This can be done, but it will not work, since the digitization of legal advice is by no means just a temporary trend, but rather will significantly change the way in which the legal profession will exercise its profession in the future within the framework of law firms or in legal departments.<\/p>\n

However, this transformation will not happen overnight, but will take place gradually over a period of several years, so that in my opinion we should not speak of disruptive developments, but rather of evolution.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, in many of the previous fields of legal activity, “not one stone will remain on the other”.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Is the end of the lawyer now near?<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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On the contrary. Even though the topic is (still) viewed rather sceptically in many places and approached with little enthusiasm, in my opinion the use of increasingly powerful software technology in the legal advisory environment opens up considerably more opportunities<\/strong> than risks for all parties involved.<\/p>\n

The use of digital services and products makes it possible for attorneys to provide advice and support to their clients.<\/p>\n