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The Future of Lawyers: An interview with Richard Susskind - Legal Tech, AI, Big Data And Online Courts what you need to know about how AI, big data, and online courts will change the legal system. -
Legal practitioners have been forced to reconsider how to market their firm, perform work and run their practices. The need for change has forced many firms to change their models, relying heavily on technology. -
Employees are not the only ones who benefit from working from home; a company can benefit just as greatly from a remote employee. Telecommuting can limit absences, increase productivity, and save money. With telecommuting the idea of the office space is changing but many are saying that it is for the better. -
Legal practitioners are creatures of tradition and certainty. They prefer all rules to be codified and all legislation to be clear. They yearn for certainty and frown upon ambiguity within contracts, laws and especially legal proceedings. Thus there is a call for the codification of video conferencing, through video links, within the Uniform Rules of Court.[2] -
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technology – and South Africa’s courts have not been left behind, despite the legal profession’s reputation of being slow to embrace new ways of working. -
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen a number of industries and organisations adopt virtual working over this period, but organisations will also need to take steps to safeguard employees’ mental health, say Phetheni Nkuna and Faatimah Essack of Lawtons Africa. -
Synthetic identity theft, or rather synthetic identity creation, has become a major breakthrough for fraudsters. The days of having to find a ‘mark’ with a good credit standing who ticks all the boxes for stealing their identity in order to defraud financial and other institutions, are fast disappearing. Syndicates have evolved in their methods of theft and fraud, safe in the knowledge that they can neither be identified, nor caught, and never be prosecuted. -
As Covid-19 sees organisations adapting and moving towards virtual or remote working, Phetheni Nkuna and Faatimah Essack of Lawtons Africaexplore the ways in which the legal system has embraced this “new normal”. -
“Identity theft, criminal investigations of the dead or missing, mass disasters both by natural causes and by criminal intent – with this as our day to day reality, the establishment and verification of human identity has never been more important or more prominent in our society. Maintaining and protecting the integrity of our identity has reached levels of unprecedented importance and has led to international legislation to protect our human rights.” – (Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction, 1st Edition - Tim Thompson, Sue Black) -
Many experts have been quick to point out that the current status quo of working from home due to COVID-19 is very different from choosing to transition employees to a flexible, work from home contract. Employees and employers are in fact not merely working from home, but are at home during a crisis, trying to work.