Abstract
Traditionally, legal services have been delivered in offices during face-to-face interactions between the lawyer and his client. At the present time, digital technologies have shifted that scheme as it becomes possible to communicate by telephone, with the use of the internet or in a way that involves both. The author rethinks the nature of legal services and provides a framework for understanding further developments. Special attention is focused on assumption that virtual law practice is more than just a sale of legal documents or single online task management because it provides direct and effective communication between a lawyer and a client. The article shows the difference that new technology can make for ensuring easy access to legal aid and justice. The author states that the central role in legal practices modernization belongs to lawyers who should change the way they work and have to embrace innovations. The article introduces all means for delivering legal aid that clearly have the potential to fully transform the legal services market. Also, the author outlines some dangers that may become a serious threats to the new technologies perspectives.
Highlights
Most of us at some point feel a great necessity in professional legal assistance
Any web site of such legal assistance service provides you with indication that this resource is not a law firm and its employees do not act as an attorney
Despite the rapidity of change in the sphere of legal assistance, we suggest that they remain low-key in their effect and some further development would be expected
Summary
Most of us at some point feel a great necessity in professional legal assistance. In the century of digitalization, it is significantly expanded by the Internet and digital technology. The growing popularity of legal online resources is quite comprehensible They are an affordable alternative to services that law firms provide for citizens and business entities in the traditional format. Any web site of such legal assistance service provides you with indication that this resource is not a law firm and its employees do not act as an attorney. By theirs features these online services do not replace the counselling of a lawyer and can be provided only through the Internet. Such legal assistance is not recognized as the legal practice. Instead of choosing goods on the shelves, you will buy samples of contracts, applications or recommendations on the legal issues
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