Abstract
AbstractThe use of legal technology (legal tech) and the lawtech ecosystem of legal start-ups has experienced tremendous growth in recent years. To provide a structured approach of analysing IT innovations in the legal sector, we propose a framework for lawtech applications, classifying them into three groups: internal, B2C and B2B applications. In the context of this framework, we examine technological trends in lawtech and their potential to support and transform processes in specific areas of business or personal law. We acknowledge that within lawtech there is a gap between the areas of interest of legal practitioners, IT professionals and academic researchers, and that some areas have received considerable attention by these groups, while other areas have been left relatively unexplored by one or more of these groups. However, the growing interest by legal practitioners in advanced technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) is further closing the gap between academic research, IT professionals and legal practice.
Highlights
We propose a structured framework for the classification of lawtech applications
We distinguish between internal, B2B and B2C applications, which are further embedded into different areas of law and recent technological trends
We postulate that the specific area of law is vital for understanding the effectiveness and impact of a specific lawtech application
Summary
The expanding lawtech ecosystem includes applications that support legal processes using more advanced technology such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as applications which seek to provide alternatives to traditional legal processes, such as marketplaces for legal services. We follow this distinction and use the term legal tech for applications which provide technological support for legal practitioners, whereas we use lawtech more broadly for legal tech applications using more advanced technology, as well as legal start-ups which seek to disrupt and replace some legal processes. Legal Tech and Lawtech: Towards a Framework for Technological Trends in the
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