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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Searle [mailto:pks@NETJUSTICE.COM.AU]
Sent: Monday, June 14, 1999 9:16 AM
To: NET-LAWYERS@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Subject: [NET-LAWYERS] Technology and the Law Report
VICTORIAN LAW REFORM COMMITTEE
The Committee released its Technology and the Law Report in May 1999
after
eighteen months of intensive research and direct contact with over 780
people around the world.
The full Report is available at:
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/lawreform/tech/default.htm
The Chairman of the Commitee, Victor Perton MP, in his foreword mirrors
our
"vision of a seamless interface between the citizen, the Government, the
courts and the legal practitioner."
A number of other observations in the Report should be noted:
1. "Globalizaion and the internationalization of legal practice place
new
pressures on lawyers. However, with the effective use of technology,
it
also provides opportunities never envisaged in the past." [para 1.18]
2. "With globalization and rapid developments in information
technology,
legal practice as we know it today will change beyond recognition in the
next decade. Information technology ideally complements the clear trend
towards the globalization of the law and legal practice. Lawyers will
have
to learn to use technology to their advantage and come to terms with
their
changing role if they wish to continue to survive in the information
age.
Lawyers will also have to develop new markets in the information economy
to
survive." [para 11.5]
3. Governments should create a unified Courts and Tribunal Authority to
amalgamate
their administrative and registry functions and a National Information
Clearinghouse.
The Chairman of the Commitee, Victor Perton MP, in his foreword also
expressly acknowedged the NetJustice creators, Peter Searle and Greg
Searle, for providing the Committee with "support and inspiration".
globeLawyer.com has summarised the effect of the report in a way that
lawyers should consider in their own practice -
"TODAY, the law is:
- advisory - on a specific problem;
- one-to-one - one client, one lawyer;
- reactive service - to a problem;
- time-based billing - discourages innovation;
- restrictive - advice tends to restrict action rather than encourage it
defensive - both of the client and of the lawyer's own back;
-legal focus - advice focussed narrowly on legal aspects of a problem
process - print based at all stages.
TOMORROW, the law will be:
- information service - with lawyers as information engineers;
- one-to-many - information will be in a re-usable form for use by many
people; - proactive - information systems will be watching for things of
interest to the user, and will send them to the user;
- commodity pricing - pricing based on the value of the service rather
than
how long it took to create;
- empowering - will present new opportunities to the client;
- pragmatic - it wil be "good" advice but not necessarily "the best";
- business focus - advice which combines legal, banking, business;
- process - Internet based. [R. SUSSKIND, THE FUTURE OF LAW]"
The time of the Global Legal Community has arrived.
Modern Legal disciplines such as Intellectual Property and Internet Law
and Electronic Commerce can only be mastered by adopting a collaborative
approach,
Peter Searle,
Owen Dixon Chambers West,
Melbourne.
VICTORIAN LAW REFORM COMMITTEE
The Committee released its Technology and the Law Report in May 1999
after
eighteen months of intensive research and direct contact with over
780 people around the world.
The full Report is available at:
http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/lawreform/tech/default.htm
The Chairman of the Commitee, Victor Perton MP, in his foreword mirrors
our
"vision of a seamless interface between the citizen, the Government,
the
courts and the legal practitioner."
A number of other observations in the Report should be noted:
1. "Globalizaion and the internationalization of legal practice
place new
pressures on lawyers. However, with the effective use of
technology, it
also provides opportunities never envisaged in the past." [para 1.18]
2. "With globalization and rapid developments in information technology,
legal practice as we know it today will change beyond recognition in
the
next decade. Information technology ideally complements the clear
trend
towards the globalization of the law and legal practice. Lawyers
will have
to learn to use technology to their advantage and come to terms with
their
changing role if they wish to continue to survive in the information
age.
Lawyers will also have to develop new markets in the information economy
to
survive." [para 11.5]
3. Governments should create a unified Courts and Tribunal Authority
to amalgamate
their administrative and registry functions and a National Information
Clearinghouse.
The Chairman of the Commitee, Victor Perton MP, in his foreword also expressly acknowedged the NetJustice creators, Peter Searle and Greg Searle, for providing the Committee with "support and inspiration".
globeLawyer.com has summarised the effect of the report in a way that lawyers should consider in their own practice -
"TODAY, the law is:
- advisory - on a specific problem;
- one-to-one - one client, one lawyer;
- reactive service - to a problem;
- time-based billing - discourages innovation;
- restrictive - advice tends to restrict action rather than encourage
it
defensive - both of the client and of the lawyer's own back;
-legal focus - advice focussed narrowly on legal aspects of a problem
process - print based at all stages.
TOMORROW, the law will be:
- information service - with lawyers as information engineers;
- one-to-many - information will be in a re-usable form for use by
many
people; - proactive - information systems will be watching for things
of
interest to the user, and will send them to the user;
- commodity pricing - pricing based on the value of the service rather
than
how long it took to create;
- empowering - will present new opportunities to the client;
- pragmatic - it wil be "good" advice but not necessarily "the best";
- business focus - advice which combines legal, banking, business;
- process - Internet based. [R. SUSSKIND, THE FUTURE OF LAW]"
The time of the Global Legal Community has arrived.
Modern Legal disciplines such as Intellectual
Property and Internet Law and Electronic
Commerce can only be mastered by adopting a collaborative approach,
Peter Searle,
Owen Dixon Chambers West,
Melbourne.
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