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Legal Technology: The New Face of Legal Practice – Polish Perspective

Legal Technology: The New Face of Legal Practice – Polish Perspective

Karolina Mania (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8476-7.ch015
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Abstract

This chapter discusses practical applications of emerging technologies in the context of legal services. The newly established legal technology (legal tech) industry is based on the application of IT services in the legal sector, radically changing the current nature of the lawyer's work. Importantly, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated the digitization of individual processes and fundamental aspects of lawyers' work, contributing to the development of legal tech. The first part contains definitions and descriptions of the term ‘legal technology' and some related ones, pointing out to the context of the relationship between dynamic technological development, the use of artificial intelligence, and the practice of the profession. The following sections describe the research on the current legal tech scene in Poland, based on integrative literature review. Then follows an analysis of the collected material, looking for the industry's map and an analysis of its specification.
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Methodology

The innovativeness of the research comes out of the combination of the research methods used and the innovative subject of research, opening new areas of application for management, legal sciences, and computer science.

Meeting the methodological requirement of triangulation and wanting to obtain material using many methods from different sources, I used the following research methods:

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    integrative literature review to gather the material

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    technology mapping to create a visualization of technology by locating it spatially along with an analysis of the relationships between them

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    cluster analysis to identify the whole population of start-ups located in Poland offering their IT systems and tools to the legal services market, and the specificity of the analyzed industry

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    McFarlan Application Portfolio Matrix to test organizations’ strategy (LegalTech start-ups) and their application portfolio

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