Indian Legal Tech

12/06/2022

Don’t learn to code. Learn to automate. ⚙️

08/06/2022

6 benefits of a good knowledge management system:

1. Better retention of knowledge 🧠
2. Collaboration becomes more fun 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
3. Saves lots of time ⏳
4. Finding stuff gets easier 🔍
5. Enriched insights 💡
6. Reliable service for clients 🪄

Understand the process of knowledge lifecycle management in the context of law firms and some practical tips to bear in mind.

08/06/2022

'If you remember an occasion when you tried to get technical assistance, like using a telephone helpline for example, it is common to have problems in how both parties involved understand each other. You and the hotline agent literally speak the same language, and yet it is often difficult to communicate because you exist in different realities.

The same of course can be true when you work in interdisciplinary teams; managers, engineers, designers, marketers as well as front-line staff and customers, can often misunderstand one another – simply because we all have individual backgrounds and experiences.

The ability to make use of this knowledge during the development of services is crucial for its later success. A user-centred approach offers a common language we can all speak; the service user’s language'.

~ This is Service Design Thinking

https://amzn.to/3l3WiFK

Free shipping on millions of items. Get the best of Shopping and Entertainment with Prime. Enjoy low prices and great deals on the largest selection of everyday essentials and other products, including fashion, home, beauty, electronics, Alexa Devices, sporting goods, toys, automotive, pets, baby, b...

01/06/2022

Check out this list of new/alternative career paths in the legal profession ⚡️

New, alternative, lesser known career paths for those looking for a career outside the traditional law careers

27/05/2022

'The market for legal services isn’t working well for its participants. Throughout the course of these past 20 years, I’ve seen a lot of people without the money to get their legal problems addressed, as well as others who didn’t even realize that the problems they were experiencing had a legal solution. I’ve seen people who knew they needed a lawyer and were able to afford one still come away vexed and disheartened by their dealings with both lawyers and the legal system. I saw courthouses backlogged with aging cases and a justice system overflowing with confused and frustrated users.

Most remarkably of all, I saw overworked, dissatisfied, unhappy lawyers, labouring every day just to make a living and serve their clients — the only people, you would think, who could still benefit from an otherwise broken-down system.

I looked at all that and thought: “This can’t be right. The market for legal services shouldn’t be this dysfunctional and discouraging for everyone. There’s got to be a better way'.

~ Jordan Furlong, in his book Law is a buyer's market: Building a client-first law firm

https://amzn.to/3l0ZrpB

Free shipping on millions of items. Get the best of Shopping and Entertainment with Prime. Enjoy low prices and great deals on the largest selection of everyday essentials and other products, including fashion, home, beauty, electronics, Alexa Devices, sporting goods, toys, automotive, pets, baby, b...

19/05/2022

'Innovation, in my understanding, is finding a new way of conducting a trial or court case.

For the Dutch civil commercial claims, I built an integrated digital procedure: e-filing, one digital case file accessible by all involved in the case, and digital case management.

Case management basically consists of deciding the next procedural step in the case of an event: someone files a defence, and then what is the next step? If the system “knows” what the next step is, it can automatically execute it, for instance tasking a party to file. In the case of defence, the case judge needs to decide what comes next: a hearing, another round of document exchange, or a decision straight away.

In most cases, the clerk will know what to do, but in exceptional situations, she can refer the case to the case judge for a decision on the next step.

This is serious innovation, and I am quite proud we were able to pull it off. It reduces waiting time since most of the time no human is needed to move the case forward. One case in our pilot scheme was completed, from filing, through a hearing to judgment, in seven weeks'.

- Dory Reiling

What can Dutch courts teach us about enabling justice through technology? Q&A with Dory Reiling, an independent judicial reform expert.

14/05/2022

Legal tech videos: Combine advanced filters and search for granular search 🎉

12/05/2022

What's at the heart of every law firm in the world? ⚖️

It's the firm's collective knowledge 📖

Here's an article about how to manage it: https://bit.ly/3l7ePkp

(by Trupteeranjan Padhi)

Understand the process of knowledge lifecycle management in the context of law firms and some practical tips to bear in mind.

18/02/2022

Hi friends,

Issue #6 of the Legal Tech Digest is up.

Notes below. Read the full issue on the website (https://bit.ly/3rXTsWY).

---

KEY STORIES

1. Lawyered, the Gurgaon-based legal marketplace and retail legal services platform, has acquired legal compliance startup Let’s Scale-Up.

2. Litigation finance platform LegalPay closes new pre-series A funding

3. Two Indian legal tech startups recognized in NASSCOM's Emerge 50 Awards: Leegality and Credgenics.

In the essential readings section, there are two recommended editorial pieces. One deals with ease and accessibility of legal information for citizens, the other is a critical take on Contract Lifecycle Management platforms from a systems theory perspective.

---

HOUSEKEEPING

Added two more sections:

1. Opportunities in legal tech 💼

This section will have a curated selection of career opportunities specifically in the legal tech sector, with relevance to Indians. If an international opportunity is being shared, it's first being vetted that it actually applies to Indians.

For issue 6, this section has Vanderbilt's NewLaw accelerator focused on legal process design, legal tech job opportunities in Gurugram and Bangalore, and Lander & Rodgers' LawTech Hub incubator.

2. Market research and insights 💡

This section has industry forecasts. Market review, predictions, industry insights, and intelligence.

---

SUBSCRIBE

If you'd like to get alerts when a new issue is published (or prefer reading the full issue in your email instead of the website), sign up on the mailing list (https://bit.ly/34K9A5K)

Domestic legal tech acquisition, fundraise at LegalPay, a comic series from Agami, and more legal tech news from India. Includes two new sections on industry forecasts and legal tech opportunities.

21/09/2021

Can contracts be programmed?

Watch more: https://bit.ly/3ECWl3R

20/09/2021

Can contracts be programmed?

Watch more: https://bit.ly/3ECWl3R

18/09/2021

How can processes and technology improve the work culture at law firms?