Author archives: Legal Economy

"It is notorious among the legal profession that I am incapable of sending or receiving emails. The consequence is that I read emails only after they have been printed out for me."

Last week, we discussed how quickly legal disruptors are changing what constitutes innovation for solicitors.

Another year has gone by and the Janders Dean Legal Innovation Index sponsored by LexisNexis has wrapped up again.

We know that some legal jobs are going to be replaced by automation.  We also know that someone needs to design the platforms that automate the legal services that will replace some lawyers.

Are you a lawyer? Feeling relaxed? Convinced you’re part of a protected species?

Uber driver: “If we get pulled over by the police, I’m your uncle and I’m giving you a lift”.

It can be the Wild West when you hop into an Uber. Not because of the service – the service is great – but because the driver doesn’t know whether they’re breaking the law, whether the Sheriff will show up. For the rider? Well, at first blush, the hardest part is working out how you’ll explain to the Sheriff that the driver’s your uncle.

It’s a hard slog being a woman in tech, and this is shown by the stats – less than 24% of Aussie ICT folk are female.

Lots of lawyers, lots of choice. Choice is great, but “choice overload” or “overchoice” (it even has its own Wikipedia entry) is mentally draining and means many people prefer to make no choice at all.

The law is an unwieldy beast. When the environment changes, it adapts, but usually to become more labour intensive, document heavy and burdensome.

At Legal Economy, we’re confident we will change the way Australian solicitors and barristers do business forever.

But we will be just the latest chapter in the technological revolution that has swept through the legal profession over the last decade or two.