Revolutionizing Law Through Software: Challenges and Solutions
Discover the reasons why software hasn't revolutionized the legal industry, including the lack of available case law, limitations on offering legal advice, and low adoption of legal tech by law firms. Explore proposed solutions such as making case databases more accessible, easing regulations on legal advice providers, and allowing non-lawyers to invest in law firms.
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WHY SOFTWARE HASNT REVOLUTIONIZED LAW Addison Cameron-Huff | CameronHuff.com | @acameronhuff
THREE BIG PROBLEMS 1. Three Companies Control Case Law 2. Software Can t Give Legal Advice 3. Productivity Revenue
CASE LAW ISNT AVAILABLE Imagine if Nokia, Palm and BlackBerry were the only phone companies No app economy, no iPhone, no Android and we d all be using Palm Pilots
CASE LAW ISNT AVAILABLE Courts distribute case law to three companies*: 1. Westlaw 2. QuickLaw 3. CanLII *Details: http://www.cameronhuff.com/blog/ontario-case-law-private/index.html
SOFTWARE CANT OFFER LEGAL ADVICE Only lawyers can offer legal advice* Tech companies can t make software that sells legal advice to customers *Or can they? LegalZoom has been fighting this for years: https://www.law.stanford.edu/news/latest-legal-victory-has-legalzoom-poised-for-growth
SOFTWARE CANT GIVE LEGAL ADVICE Companies can t sell to the consumers of legal services At best, German model of lawyers advising online publicly: frag-einen-anwalt.de Techies forced to sell to lawyers but
PRODUCTIVITY REVENUE Bay St. colleague wrote a program to automate a common time-consuming task No interest from firm Billable hour means productivity revenue
PRODUCTIVITY REVENUE Lawyers don t buy much software because they don t see the need Companies can t sell to the lawyers and they can t sell to the consumers No wonder the software revolution is happening in other industries
SOLUTIONS 1. Make case database available via torrent/FTP/AMI + no licensing restrictions 2. Ease regulation of who can provide legal advice 3. Allow non-lawyers to buy into firms (ABS)
