A quick look around the world at how legal technology is being received is summed up in the following stats:
As legal services are being delivered in this increasingly digitised world, it's clear that the traditional way of doing things cannot guarantee survival. In order to adapt to these inevitable changes within law firms or in-house legal teams, there needs to be more focus on the interconnection between people, process and technology.
This is the focus of the free webinar, The 21st Century Lawyer, which will be hosted by LexisNexis South Africa on Wednesday, 28 July at 10am. Based on the e-learning course of the same name, developed by Kevin van Tonder, who has over 25 years of legal experience, the session aims to help guide the next generation of lawyers to be better lawyers and to transform a profession that has largely remained the same for hundreds of years, in terms of how legal services are delivered.
Van Tonder has extensive experience in legal operations, compliance and people development in many challenging jurisdictions and is a champion of the benefits of diversity in the legal sector.
Videsha Proothveerajh, LexisNexis 3 Jun 2021
In this session, he will cover aspects including:
Both in-house legal practitioners and those in law firms will benefit from these insights into what customers will expect from them in this increasingly digitised world. The content has been endorsed by leading in-house legal practitioners and corporate lawyers.
Matthew Welz, head of legal at Clicks, said: "Any in-house counsel who has not recognised that our ways-of-work and the expectations of our roles are changing, is being left behind. Kevin's course highlighted and contextualised some of these changes, and provided me with a useful base from which to assess my own team's progress and the direction in which we are moving.”
Louis Gqoboka, senior legal advisor: head of investments at Alexander Forbes, said: "The course reaches lawyers about ‘design thinking’ in order to create efficiencies and free up much needed time to better service clients. It further teaches lawyers to think more broadly about disruption that has already occurred in other sectors and how those provide key learnings that can be applied in the legal tech field."
Register now for the 21st Century Lawyer webinar: https://relx.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xvTVVqgJTtSPpxcxWE5Dag
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