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Spring2020

Peer to Peer: ILTA's Quarterly Magazine

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26 P E E R T O P E E R : I L T A ' S Q U A R T E R L Y M A G A Z I N E | S P R I N G 2 0 2 0 is because that client doesn't want pay for endless hours to solve his problem: he wants a problem solution for yesterday, paying lesser than he can think and with the best quality, what includes a complete solution (not for that case in specific, but encompassing to all your business). This change – obviously, not exclusive that, but the most part – triggered a search for heads offices who thinking out of the box and innovate about how to do law, maintaining quality and attending what client's needs. With that, the "Law World" introduce yourself to "Technolo World" and (who knows?!): they fit one with another better than every possible thought. The offices and legal services in general start to look for tech solutions to their problems. Since lawyers work requires mental and technical skills, the mix between these two areas began timidly, but increase with time and today we already have artificial intelligences that elaborate a full (almost) perfect legal petition, for an example. However, we have to be clear when we said all this technolo innovation came for help the lawyer to deploying your work better and faster, not (until now) for take his place. With the increasing use of technolo by the offices and courts, the lawyers need to enter in the labor market with a notion of how to work with new technologies (not against them) and use them in their favor, always thinking "out of the box" for better your work. I Graduate and Now?! The old Law Schools use to teach their students how to deploying a new teases, to interpret the laws, a little about economy, psycholo, to write correctly, to respect the court and judges etc. But, until recently, they didn't saw the legal market needs so much more than that. They need learn how to thinking in other forms to do the things, how to have an open mind, study a little bit about design thinking, artificial intelligences, lawgile, deep learning, machine learning, a little bit about the technical part of how this technolo works, blockchain, customer experience, knowledge management, anyway, all that things which will explodes when they became lawyers and what the market is looking for. The most of the young lawyers graduate on Law School without know even exist this type of technolo, lesser than this is already in use for medium/big offices (until some small ones). This is a big challenge for all law schools. In Brazil, the court still has virtual processes since begin of 2000's. Now, the most part of our cases are virtual (the documents, summons and decisions are available on digital platforms). But, if law students didn't do an internship in office or in our own court, by themselves, they don't know even how to start to use the court system. See that the student has graduate, passed in the Bar Exam and (using Brazil like an example) is ready to be a lawyer, practicing law, but the truth is: she/he don't know how to be one! If the law student passed for all that to be a lawyer, the minimum expected is they are already able to consult a law process and file the complaint. But, the internships mentioned before isn't obligatory, so if they "just" go to law school, in the future they will doesn't know even how to login of any court platform. They finish the Law School and, now, have to do specific courses about "how to really be a lawyer", the profession which, technically, they are studying for the last five years. With the needs of legal market, already mentioned in the beginning, the technolo has increased in an impressive and unexpected way, not having been accompanied by Law Schools. Because of that and the new skills which are required in this times, some young lawyers has been looking for specializations and post graduations in other areas without law, searching for more knowledge than law school has provided for them. But it's hard for them seeing that clearly and soon as possible if they don't F E A T U R E S

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