Legal tech, real-time data flow with customers
Like those “umbrella terms” described by semiotics, the expression “legal tech” also covers different phenomena. Many of which are in the making. There are “enabling” technologies, those that intervene mainly on processes, simplifying and speeding up, and that already improve the efficiency of law firms thanks to the automation of certain activities: from knowledge management to document research and analysis. And there are “transformational” technologies (from artificial intelligence to robotics) that promise instead to change the activities of lawyers more profoundly: but with a potential that is still very unexpressed.

On the front Enabling, over the year, the use of applications for all-round remote work has been consolidated. “Both for the internal management of relationships between colleagues and for discussions with customers, increasingly inserted in a continuous flow of information. The service is no longer punctual (act, opinion, contract) but continuous, of “duration”: we work to help the customer to communicate with their interlocutors through document automation systems that reduce the time required to conclude the contract and make intelligent use of data”, summarizes Carlo Rossi Chauvenet, partner of the law firm Crclex.
“Thanks to the collaboration with Sweet Legal Tech (consulting and training firm in digital law, Editor's note) — he says — we have evaluated the tools of international software companies, trying to understand when ad hoc tools are needed. We turned to solutions.”No Code”, which allow the flexible organization of information flows, which are highly customizable.”
Since the various applications, even those of third parties, must communicate and must be integrated - explains Rossi Chauvenet - “there is a need for a Legal Integrator, who knows law and technology and oversees integration from a legal point of view. Just as smartphones are 'smart' because they integrate third-party services, so the profession is' smart 'when it does not limit itself to giving a document in PDF, but it puts in place the technologies useful to offer better services.”
Curated by Dario Aquaro
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