The Future of Legal Practice: how technology is fundamentally changing legal services

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A number of system-level changes are occurring within the legal profession. Technology has moved law from a wholly bespoke service to one that resembles an off-the-shelf commodity, just as the internet, globalisation, and outsourcing have upended the traditional expectation that legal work is performed where the legal need is. At the same time, platform technology and economics are chipping away at the previously stable structure of the law firm, while machine learning models promise to allow computers to perform the legal tasks that only human lawyers have previously done.

It is an open question as to how the legal profession and legal institutions will respond to these challenges. Whatever the answer, it is clear that the future will see a large percentage of the practice of law performed by institutions that sit outside the legal profession. This will have significant effects on the profession, the market, and ultimately society.

We are delighted to welcome Dan Hunter, dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London, to talk about how technology is fundamentally changing legal services. Dan is an international expert in internet and intellectual property law, AI & law, and legal tech and legal innovation.