Although cloud computing may seem like a relatively new technology, it has actually been around for nearly half a century. It was in 1961 when the creator of the language used to develop artificial intelligence, John McCarthy, came up with the idea of collective computing in a world that did not yet know the Internet. However, it was necessary to inaugurate…
It all started in 2008, the financial crisis laid the groundwork for a new way of providing services, the client wants more for less; and this is how companies, not law firms, such as Axiom, Riverview Law, Lawyers on Demand, Legal Zoom, Rocket Lawyer, among others, began to gain strength. In 2008, in Latin America, there were no…
We live in disruptive times, technologies such as machine learning, contract automation, artificial intelligence and even blockchain are already part of the legal industry. Disruption, according to the RAE, is a sudden break or interruption; it breaks the status quo. These times of change are extremely exciting, it is the time to build, to innovate…
I was recently watching a program by Andrés Oppenheimer in which the latter was presenting his book: Save Yourself Who Can! – The Future of Work in the Age of Automation. And in this program, Mr. Oppenheimer explained that one of the first professions to be significantly affected by this automation would be that of lawyers; and he spoke…
Today, the legal sector has suffered an earthquake similar to that caused by ‘Fordism’ in the automobile industry. Through the use of various technologies, such as artificial intelligence or the cloud, to mention just a couple of examples, the legal profession will change forever. In 1893, the Duryea brothers launched the…
Being aware of the delicate correlation between the need for digital transformation of our professional practice, the type of practice we have and the benefits of the tools we can integrate, is essential to address techno-legal evolution appropriately. Technological integration in legal practice. More than thirty years have passed since that…