Legal Industry Research Articles

Sustainable Competitive Advantage in the Legal Industry: A Review of Business Strategies and Market Entry Approaches for Gowling WLG in Japan and Nigeria

The modern business landscape has been notably disrupted by events like the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced global trade by 13% to 23% in 2020, affecting the triple bottom line—profit, people, and planet—of the legal industry. This research develops a sustainable competitive advantage framework for Gowling WLG in emerging markets, focusing on Japan and Nigeria. The study compares Gowling WLG's business strategies and market entry approaches through a strategic management model and case study design, comparing the firm's operations in these diverse markets. Data was collected via document analysis, interviews, field observations, and megatrend articles to evaluate the competitive landscape. A context analysis of existing literature helped formulate relevant themes. Findings reveal the dynamic nature of the legal sector, influenced by political stability, economic conditions, technological advancements, and environmental concerns. Despite challenges like Brexit, global growth opportunities and threats coexist. Gowling's strengths include global recognition and advanced technology, but it also faces challenges in innovation and leadership. Opportunities lie in expanding the high-legal industry and offering sustainability-focused services, though cybersecurity risks and economic instability are significant threats. Strategic alliances with local firms for risk management and expertise are advised. Entering Japan requires thorough research, local collaboration, and cultural sensitivity. This research contributes to the empirical and theoretical literature, noting data reliability limitations, especially in Nigeria.

Marketing Strategy for Indonesian Law Firms to Attract Multinational and Foreign Clients (USLS Law Firm)

The objective of this research is to develop an effective marketing strategy for USLS Law Firm, a local Indonesian law firm, aiming to penetrate multinational and foreign markets. As the legal industry in Indonesia becomes increasingly competitive, with numerous local law firms establishing international affiliations, USLS Law Firm faces the challenge of enhancing its global presence. This study adopts a comprehensive research methodology, including VRIO, STP Model, Marketing Mix, Business Model Canvas, Competitor Analysis, Customer Analysis, PESTEL, and Porter 5 Forces, and in-depth interviews with USLS Law Firm’s clients and multinational companies. The research proposes several marketing strategies recommendations for USLS Law Firm. These include forming strategic partnerships with reputable international law firms, enhancing training and development programs for junior lawyers, adopting advanced technologies, targeting specific international markets, revising pricing strategies, improving office infrastructure, and strengthening marketing channels through Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC). Additionally, the importance of cultural sensitivity training is emphasized to improve client relationships and service delivery. By implementing these strategies, USLS Law Firm can achieve sustainable growth and maintain its reputation for delivering high-quality legal services, not only for local market, but also multinational and foreign markets.

The Stateless Legal Clinic: Innovative Models for Addressing Unmet Legal Need in Australia through Clinical Legal Education

The Stateless Legal Clinic is a unique service providing legal education and aid to eligible stateless children in their application for Australian citizenship. It also provides law students at the University of Melbourne with the opportunity to gain practical legal experience and engage in experiential learning, through a clinical legal education elective subject offered within the Juris Doctor (JD) degree. The Stateless Legal Clinic aims to address a critical gap in legal services for stateless children in Australia and situates clinical legal education within the relatively new and emerging discipline of ‘statelessness studies.’ Through an examination of Australia's legal framework for addressing the global human rights issue of statelessness, this article examines the design and operation of the Stateless Legal Clinic, arguing that clinical legal education can provide innovative models for increasing access to justice for communities often overlooked or under-serviced by the legal industry.

Analyze the Importance of Diversity in the Legal Profession, Using the Example of the LGBT Subgroup

In recent years, the diverse professional backgrounds of legal practitioners have aroused research interest among scholars, as well as practitioners in the practice field. This essay focuses on LGBT subgroup in diversity, who are vulnerable to exclusion from others due to special gender identity and sexual orientation, and there are barriers to entering the legal profession. However, the entry of this group into the legal field may increase the diversity of the legal profession and contribute to the realization of justice, the formation of an ethical climate and economic benefits. In this regard, this essay provides suggestions on promoting LGBT groups to enter the legal profession from the perspectives of judicial policy, legal industry recruitment, and the establishment of a sense of belonging. This essay selects the diverse LGBT subgroup to discuss its importance in the legal profession and its significance to social development, which could fill the research gap to a certain extent.

The Legal Industry of the Future and Teaching English to Law Students

In many countries of the world, the legal industry is undergoing profound transformations. The changes concern the way lawyers design their products and deliver services to clients. The providers of legal services have to respond to the «more for less» challenge.The article deals with the impact of technology on the legal profession. Analysing the present-day trends on the market, the forecasts made by legal scholars and law practitioners, the author describes the law firm of the future. Based on the study of the set of skills required of lawyers today, the author gives recommendations on how to prepare law-students to work in a constantly changing environment.

The impact and challenges of AI on the legal industry

The impact and challenges of AI on the legal industry

Research and Application of Legal Consultation database based on multimedia Network

In order to relieve the pressure of people's appeal for legal inquiry, the research and application of legal consultation database based on multimedia network is proposed. The legal consultation system designed in this essay, combined with the current situation of the legal industry, takes the Chinese question answering system as the prototype, combined with the open source data retrieval project Lucene.net, expands the data storage types. In this essay, the Chinese word segmentation system developed by Chinese Academy of Sciences is integrated into Lucene.Net platform to make up for its word segmentation deficiency. And the mutual information technology is used to make the legal related words with the same meaning be searched first. When extracting answers in Chinese question answering system, there are often "missing" and "wrong" answers. In this essay a method of sentence similarity calculation of questions and answers based on Latent Semantic analysis (LSA) is proposed, which uses spatial vector model as representation method and latent semantic analysis theory. A low-dimensional semantic space is constructed by using the dimension reduction method of singular value decomposition, and the sentence similarity between question and answer is computed on the semantic space. Experimental results show that most retrievals can be completed within 20 seconds, and the average unit retrieval time is kept at the millisecond level. Conclusion: This system has more accurate query accuracy and less running time.

인공지능 기반 대화형 법률 상담 서비스디자인

The development of AI is having a significant impact on the legal industry, but in Korea, legal tech is still in the early introduction stage. The purpose of this study is to suggest service design of AI-based interactive legal consultation solving problems in the legal consultation process. After reviewing the previous research on legal services, information asymmetry, and legal tech, in-depth interviews and idea workshops with stakeholders were conducted and the service concept focused on explaining legal terms, providing similar cases and predictive information, and highlighting key points was created. The service concept was verified by stakeholders in the form of a mobile prototype. This study is significant in that it presents service design of AI-based consultation by reflecting the needs of various stakeholders, and can be the basis for legal tech services in the future.

Data Rakshak

Abstract: Information security is essential as data exchange moves towards an electronic system. In today's visual communication system, picture, text, and video protection are crucial. Unauthorized uses of private videos, text, and image data must be prevented. It can be difficult to find and identify unauthorized users. Several researchers have proposed several methods for protecting the transfer of texts. We created an encryption and decryption technique with security in mind. We have primarily concentrated on data security, which may be utilized by security agencies, the IT sector, SMBs, the healthcare industry, governmental organizations, the legal industry, financial and banking institutions, etc

Legal technology: A comprehensive analysis of their impact on legal industry and enhancing entrepreneurial opportunities

The continuous development of technology, showed an ongoing discussion about the impact of robots, artificial intelligence, and digitalization on our daily lives and professions. This article aims to analyze the advantages, disadvantages, and regulatory issues related to legal technologies in business. Specifically, it focuses on the use of technological tools in legal work and how lawyers can adapt and acquire the necessary skills. A thorough literature review was conducted to examine the influence of legal technology on commercial legal science. The findings reveal that legal technology plays a vital role in automating tedious tasks, improving efficiency, and reducing human errors within the field. Legal technology is intended to enhance lawyers' work rather than replace them entirely. Overcoming obstacles requires investing in adequate training programs while gradually adopting new behaviors within the industry.

The Law Tech Clinic: Leading the way in Entrepreneurial Law Clinics

Globalisation, economic forces and technological advancements are changing the way law is practised. Clients are seeking innovative solutions to an increasingly broad range of legal challenges. They want greater connectivity and streamlined delivery of legal services. The rate of change has accelerated in response to remote working, with the digital maturity of legal firms advancing more rapidly than ever before, utilising technology such as electronic billing practices, digital mailrooms, e- discovery, digital document signing and workflow automation.
 Newly developed and deployed legal technology within the sector has increased demand for lawyers with the skills to adapt and thrive in a technological environment. Law firms favour graduates with a ‘technology mindset’ and aptitude to think beyond the traditional professional services model. The Monash University Faculty of Law, one of the leading law schools in Australia with a pioneering clinical program, has established a Law Tech Clinic (LTC). The LTC provides a unique opportunity for students to work on real client matters and receive end-to-end industry input to develop client-ready applications.
 This paper describes the LTC’s structure and how the clinic is designed to educate students on the changing demands of the legal industry, providing practical knowledge on legal technology usage to advance legal services. This paper outlines how the LTC enables students to develop professional and practical legal skills that will help them become successful entrepreneurial lawyers, adept at integrating technology with innovative legal services. Further, this paper demonstrates how the Monash Clinical Program, with a strong focus on best practice in clinical legal education, provides a perfect forum to run such a clinic. We demonstrate how students work with technological systems to assist industry partners, law firms and other organisations and provide accessible legal services to their clients.2 Finally, this paper highlights how the LTC educates students on technological advances in legal practice, equipping them with frameworks for the knowledge, skills and attributes to be technologically proficient future legal practitioners. Although this discussion is in the Australian context, it can also apply to other jurisdictions as the associated issues with legal technology and its effects on legal practice are occurring globally.

Discussion on the Reform of Higher Legal Education in China Based on the Application and Limitation of Artificial Intelligence in Law Represented by ChatGPT

ChatGPT, as a representative of generative artificial intelligence, is a disruptive innovation in the field of AI. With its powerful natural language processing technology, ChatGPT has been widely used in the legal profession, providing strong support for the legal industry. As ChatGPT and other AI technologies continue to evolve and become more widely adopted, they will undoubtedly impact the legal industry and current higher education in Chinese law. Based on this, we will explore the challenges and opportunities facing Chinese legal education in the era of artificial intelligence, focusing on the applications and limitations of generative AI such as ChatGPT in the legal profession.

Prospects and Challenges with Legal Informatics and Legal Metrology Framework in the Context of Industry 6.0

Industry 6.0 is viewed as a futuristic industrial evolution. It aims to set the synergy between man and robot by providing the wealth affluence away from the trade, and customers solutions that would provide progress to the world in every field across all planetary boundaries. Industry 6.0 comprises numerous promising technology such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, and quantum artificial computing. These technologies have the massive capabilities to help the legal industry, metrology industry and many other organizations attain their goals by delivering excellent and best-suited insights. In the future, these technologies will assist the lawmaker and jurisprudence in improving the old law justice system into the advanced one. In this article, we first introduce a glimpse of industry 6.0 from the outlook of legal information, digital transformation in metrology, and strength, limitation, opportunities, and threat analysis in brief. Then we discuss key technologies of industry 6.0, framework of legal informative, a futuristic model for a legal informatics system based on quantum-based AI, machine learning, and digital legal metrology and its challenges in adoption in regard’s Industry 6.0. In subsequent sections, we discussed requirements, challenges, and progress in developed countries, preparedness of academia and industry in India. Then, we brief challenges for legal metrology in the future, opportunities for legal metrology in future legal challenges faced by lawyers and legal metrology, limitations of the study, research implication, and conclusion. Finally, the finding shows that industry 6.0 technologies have enormous capabilities to bring a revolutionary change in the legal industry but are present in the new born growth stage.

Peculiarities of using virtual whiteboards to form the professional competence of future lawyers in foreign language classes at university

Problem statement . The focuses of the current digital intercultural learning environment as training programs for professionals in the legal industry specify their developing of systemic foreign language communication skills, skills to analyze which can be based on information technologies and actualized in rapidly changing professional tasks. The study is aimed at substantiating the effectiveness of using virtual whiteboards to form the professional competence of future lawyers in foreign language classes at university. Methodology . The analysis of theory and methodology, generalization of crucial scientific papers on the studied problem, processing of results and creating interactive whiteboards are applied. The pedagogical experiment involved 97 students (girls - 48%, boys - 52%) of the Law Institute of Vyatka State University. Fisher's criterion (angular transformation) is used as a statistical processing method. Results . The didactic peculiarities of making use of virtual whiteboards when forming professional and legal competence of a professional in the legal industry during foreign language classes are stated: the capabilities of network intercultural cooperation when solving tasks in the legal industry; seeking legal assistance; foreign language communication; virtual discussion of criminal acts; independence of the interactive network environment for modeling legal processes; keeping the results in a cloud. At the control stage of the experiment, statistically significant differences between the levels of formed competences of the participants of the experimental and control groups were revealed. Conclusion . Making use of whiteboards will contribute to the formation of foreign language and professional legal competences of a specialist while providing a set of circumstances: active work with foreign regulatory acts in English, showing students new intercultural information collaboration and legal consultancy, combining different types of work, organizing foreign language feedback, solving real practical legal tasks.

Difficulties to digitalize: ambidexterity challenges in law firms

PurposeThis paper aims to understand what prevents established law firms from embracing digitalization and discusses barriers to solving the emerging ambidexterity problem. Law firms have been organized in the same way for decades. However, digital opportunities are emerging and new competitors are challenging established firms. This presents established law firms with an ambidexterity problem: How can law firms simultaneously uphold their successful way of working while entering a new world of digitalization, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning?Design/methodology/approachPrevious research suggests that law firms are slow in digital transformation, compared to other Professional Service Firms (PSFs). In this paper, the authors explore why this happens. Interview data from representatives in law firms are complemented with data from architects as well as legal industry data and field notes. The data have been analyzed to spot patterns and emerging themes.FindingsThe authors find that established law firms face structural and cultural barriers to applying ambidextrous solutions. When comparing law firms with architecture firms, the authors see that while established architecture firms have combined digital exploration with ongoing exploitation, established law firms have focused on exploitation, leaving digital exploration to new legal tech firms. This difference can be attributed to industry context and professional culture.Originality/valueThis paper shows that both structural and contextual ambidexterity is a challenge for established law firms. This paper contributes to the understanding of barriers to embrace digital technology, and supports practitioners in efforts to remove these barriers.

Exploring the Intersection of Big Data and Legal Analytics: A Survey of its Application in the Legal Industry

Over the last decade, we have witnessed exponential growth in the usage of Big Data in a wide range of domains such as the entertainment industry, sports industry, financial industry etc. The legal industry is starting to take notice of Big Data analytics in their field. Lawyers have been using big data analytics tools for their daily purposes which include billing, marketing and customer relations functions. For the survey, "Legal Analytics" was defined as software that uses artificial intelligence to search through massive amounts of data and identify trends that are useful to lawyers. The connection between Big Data (BD) and law can be visualised in several ways. More and more law firms are turning to Big Data to identify which cases are likely to be straightforward and which cases will have hidden hurdles to overcome. In this paper, we have attempted to compare and take a deeper look at some of the algorithms and platforms built and developed for data analytics, namely Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), Long Short – Term Memory (LSTM) and a platform known as many Laws which is used for fetching queries and specific laws through a vast database of European laws and regulations. We have further studied how different parameters have affected the results in the case of models such as ARIMA and have taken a look into a text extractor architecture that incorporates the use of LSTM in one of its layers to extract relevant information.

Data Entry Services Fuel Transformation in Legal Industry

Data Entry Services Fuel Transformation in Legal Industry

Recruitment in the Corporate Legal Industry Panel Discussion

AbstractRecruitment within the legal information sector has been challenging in recent years, in both the UK and the US, with a market that has been heavily skewed in favour of applicants. Which is why the City Legal Information Group (CLIG) hosted a virtual conference in late February to look at the current state of the recruitment market, the best ways to hire the very best people, and also the methods individuals might employ to find work in the sector themselves. Here Caroline Asbjornsen, a researcher at Watson Farley & Williams LLP and a member of the CLIG committee, talks us through what turned out to be a fascinating discussion.

“AI Am Here to Represent You”: Understanding How Institutional Logics Shape Attitudes Toward Intelligent Technologies in Legal Work

The implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in work is increasingly common across industries and professions. This study explores professional discourse around perceptions and use of intelligent technologies in the legal industry. Drawing on institutional theory, we conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with legal professionals and semi-professionals in varying roles including lawyers, law librarians, legal staff (paralegals, document clerks), and law students. Their discursive accounts provided evidence for three institutional logics—expertise, accessibility, and efficiency—that guided their understanding and use of AI. Our analysis further revealed that legal professionals and semi-professionals held contradictory attitudes towards intelligent technologies and invoked contradictory institutional logics. These findings contribute to theory on institutional logics and digital transformation, providing insights into how occupational roles and institutional logics shape professionals’ discursive construction of intelligent technologies, and how discursive tensions are redefining professional boundaries and contributing to institutional change in knowledge-intensive work.

AI and Changing Trends in Legal Industry

AI and Changing Trends in Legal Industry