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How To Use Technology To Help Prepare a Legal Case
Modern times are an age of advanced technology that impacts nearly every aspect of daily life.
00:13 01 November 2023
Modern times are an age of advanced technology that impacts nearly every aspect of daily life. One area that is seeing huge changes is the legal system. While legal cases have been going on for centuries, how you or your lawyers can prepare for one involves technology in a growing number of ways. You should know about them if you have to get ready for a legal case of any kind.
AI
As many levels of courts grapple with technology cases, the rise of AI chatbots and resources are fueling quite a few debates. Some chatbots might be useful in crafting arguments and researching case law, specific statutes, and legal precedents. AI results require verification since they are prone to errors, but they can help find logical fallacies in legal arguments you hope to present in a courtroom or hearing.
Digital Resources
Even before the pandemic made remote justice proceedings a regular occurrence, lawyers and even some of their clients were using digital resources to prepare cases. You might use the Internet to look up potential attorneys and read reviews about them. Online legal databases make it easier to search for prior cases and legal statutes faster than analog law library systems would ever make possible, and online collaboration tools, such as Google Documents, allow a research team to consolidate their notes or draft documents when researching a case.
E-Filing
Nearly all legal proceedings or procedures require certain documents to be filed at various points, often with hard deadlines and meticulous requirements. Missing a filing deadline at a clerk's office or courthouse could hinder or even sink a case, and anything from traffic to bad weather could ruin things. Electronic filing has changed all this because there aren't delays or document losses in the postal mail system. Even inside an office, an electronic filing system means everything can be stored on a server, so personnel don't have to file through briefcases and cabinets to find everything they need.
Social Media
Many legal cases end up against another person, party, or group. Lawyers can use social media to look up their accounts of them to try and find evidence against them. Many people have no idea how easy it is to access their social media content and might inadvertently post things that weaken their cases or even backfire against them.
Mobile Technology
Attorneys can now do research and take notes about cases no matter where they are. Whenever they have strategies form in their minds, they can record it. Also, witness interviews can happen anywhere at any time. You can use this on your own with your smartphone by taking video statements and pictures at the scene of an accident for use in settlement negotiations.
From Zoom trials and AI to management software and online resources, the realm of legal technology has grown exponentially in recent years. Use these possibilities to help you prepare for your legal case, or at least look for attorneys who can maximize technological possibilities so you have the best odds for a successful legal outcome.