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Legal Tech, the Law Firm and the Imagination of the Right Legal Answer
Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7092-7280
Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9556-0964
Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5127-2717
Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5688-2482
2023 (English)In: Law and Critique, ISSN 0957-8536, E-ISSN 1572-8617, Vol. 34, no 3, p. 381-394Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Legal tech is growing, and its growth provokes anxieties about the future of the legal profession as such. In this article, we examine the impact of legal tech on the central role of lawyers at law firms in crafting an imagined ‘right legal answer’ by drawing on Duncan Kennedy’s suggestion that a claim to the rightness of one’s legal propositions is a central characteristic of the legal profession. We first ask how changes in the organisation of legal services affect the ability of lawyers at law firms to produce that ‘right legal answer’. While legal tech only exacerbates already ongoing processes of eradication of routine tasks, we find that it continues to mask the role of ideology in arriving at a right legal answer under a new layer of technological projection. Second, we ask how lawyers’ ability to produce ‘the right legal answer’ is affected by, first, expert systems and, second, a legal tech application named Bryter, representing a no-code system. We find that expert systems do not permit to uphold the unity of the lawyer required for Kennedy’s model of the right legal answer, but that no-code systems as Bryter do so. No-code systems can be reduced to a slogan: Have the lawyer, but evict her ideological temptations more efficiently than before!© 2023, The Author(s).

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Dordrecht: Springer, 2023. Vol. 34, no 3, p. 381-394
Keywords [en]
Legal tech, Legal profession, Right Legal Answer, Legal imagination, Bryter, No-code platform
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Other Legal Research Criminology Law (excluding Law and Society)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-51922DOI: 10.1007/s10978-023-09363-4ISI: 001081077600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85173681499OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-51922DiVA, id: diva2:1810466
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University of Gothenburg, 2017:006Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2017:006
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Funding: The research leading to these results received funding from the Markus and Marianne Wallenberg Foundation under Grant No 2017:006. Open access funding provided by University of Gothenburg. 

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