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10 - Regulation of Legal Services and Access to Justice in the Digital Age

A War Report*

from Part III - Legal Tech in Consumer Relations and Small Claims

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2021

Larry A. DiMatteo
Affiliation:
University of Florida
André Janssen
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Pietro Ortolani
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Francisco de Elizalde
Affiliation:
IE University Madrid
Michel Cannarsa
Affiliation:
Catholic Lyon University
Mateja Durovic
Affiliation:
King's College London
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Summary

The potential of digital solutions and legal tech (LT) for increasing access to justice is real. Although many LT developments focus on innovation of law practices, in several countries we see LT as champion of access to justice. These typically are new types of players in the market that provide legal services directly to the public. Even though practice-based evidence shows their positive impact, legal services regulations struggle to catch up and facilitate these developments. They, as a matter of fact, may actually hamper access to justice improvements. In that respect, it is illustrative that private investors acknowledge the potential of LT, but only dared to invest 2.8 per cent of their $1 billion total investments in 2018 in customer-facing services.1

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Print publication year: 2021

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