But the problem of unaffordable legal services is caused by the high cost of legal advice services, not by
routine legal services such as simple real estate deals, divorces, and incorporations.
Not exact matches
Such an institute could provide a single bargaining agency on behalf of all lawyers in Canada, by which to obtain the automation of
routine legal services, and not have to endure ownership by a commercial investor to get it, as proposed by the ABS investors.
They could finance the automation for providing
routine legal services, but
such automation is something that the
legal profession can provide for itself, better by itself without: (1) law offices having to be owned by investors; and, (2) the risk of the fiduciary duty owed to clients being suppressed by the resulting profit duty owed to investors.
«Over the last few years, lawyers in India selling
services offshore have focused mainly on the
routine grunt work that is often done by junior lawyers,
such as research, in which lawyers comb through
legal documents searching for information to back up a case.»
Many of the
services that law firms now provide,
such as managing documents in litigation or due diligence, are being done by new vendors like NovusLaw, which markets itself as «The Compelling Alternative for
Routine Legal Work,» and promises to do that work «faster, better, cheaper» than a full -
service law firm.
Progress is being made in delivering better value to clients, in automating
routine legal services, in project managing work and in using technology - led solutions
such as document review tools used to create client efficiencies.
In addition to
legal research, there are many other specialized support
services that can be provided with
such expert advice, including the automation of
routine legal services at a lower cost than can the investor - owners of law firms (the ABS alternative), and advising on marketing strategies and methods of maximizing income and client
services and satisfaction.
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.
Note however, that the problem is caused by
legal advice
services, and not by
routine legal services that are mostly
routine paper - work,
such as simple house sales, wills, incorporating small companies, and
such.
Or, because of the commercial producers of
legal services» eating into the
routine legal services market of the general practitioner (e.g., LegalZoom, LegalX, RocketLawyer), as a profession we will shrink in size, purpose, and importance, and our law societies proportionately diminished by all
such measures.
Our Belfast office tackles high - volume, large - scale projects
such as document review, e-discovery, due diligence and
legal research to enable our Firm to provide
routine legal services to clients quickly and cost effectively.