Not exact matches
That is because they can at best make the law office
more cost - efficient, which isn't enough to create affordable
legal services, other than
routine legal services, but not
legal advice
services.
Not only have these changes helped us to become
more efficient in delivering
legal services, but they have also helped to empower our 400 + clients to find solutions to
routine problems freeing the
legal team up to spend
more time on
more important matters.
Omar's thesis taps into the debate about the commoditization of
legal services to make them
more widely accessible — e.g., standardizing
routine functions so that non-
legal professionals can take care of them, with lawyers only called on to handle
more complex cases.
The company is now looking to offer
more services to consumers and small businesses, according to a feature in the ABA Journal last year, including
routine legal advice using a mix of lawyers and non-lawyers.
As to financing such development by Canada's lawyers (instead of by commercial investors) of software for automating the delivery of
routine legal services:
more than $ 11 million could be raised if every lawyer in Canada paid an addition one - time $ 100 increase in annual law society fees.
They can perhaps speed the adoption of innovations such as the «packaging» of those
routine legal services that can be provided
more cost - efficiently by software applications such as for writing simple wills and incorporating small companies.
So, automation and machine learning will continue to drive down the cost of
routine legal services, while opening up enormous opportunities to bring
more people into the market.
The real cause is that most front - line purchasers of corporate
legal services (in - house lawyers) care
more about what traditional suppliers (law firms) can offer them (strong personal relationships, a reliable brand,
routine buying processes, and a familiar culture) than what they can offer the enterprise.
The Internet is not only making it easier for non-experts to gain access to the information they need; it is driving a gradual expansion of automation from low - cost,
routine professional
services to
more bespoke
services, especially as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes
more sophisticated (e.g., IBM Watson's applications to the healthcare and
legal industries).