scholarly journals How Many 'Clicks' Does it Take? Finding Price Information on New Zealand Lawyers' Websites

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-506
Author(s):  
Louisa Choe
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Search Cost ◽  
Price Information ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Share Information

This article examines price transparency in New Zealand's civil legal services market and compares the civil legal services market characteristics to those of other jurisdictions. The current law does not incentivise providers within the legal services market to communicate price information to consumers searching for a provider. The researcher utilised a web-sweep method to assess how New Zealand law firms that provide dispute resolution services and employment advocates share information through their websites. The web-sweep covered the websites of 96 New Zealand law firms and 30 New Zealand employment advocates. The author assessed the ease with which prospective consumers could navigate and understand price-related information. The results demonstrated that in a majority of instances, price information is unclear and uncertain. It is therefore not comparable between providers. Consumers in New Zealand face a high search cost when looking for prices and deciding on a legal service provider. They are unable to make a meaningful price comparison between providers of dispute resolution services before engaging them. Stronger regulation of providers (lawyers and employment advocates) to require the display of pricing information would lower search costs for consumers and increase competition.

Legal Systems & Skills

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Slorach ◽  
Judith Embley ◽  
Peter Goodchild ◽  
Catherine Shephard
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Finance Law ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Essential Knowledge

Legal Systems & Skills provides essential knowledge and skills for underpinning legal studies, providing a foundation for graduate employability both within and outside the legal service profession. It develops students’ understanding in three core areas: legal systems, legal skills, and professional development and commercial awareness. The first part of the book looks at legal systems, sources of law, legislation, case law, and legal services. The next part considers how to read and understand law, legal research, problem solving, communication, and writing and drafting. The final part examines employability skills, business, economics and finance, law firms, and clients.

Legal Systems & Skills

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Embley ◽  
Peter Goodchild ◽  
Catherine Shephard
Keyword(s):  
Oral Communication ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Essential Knowledge

Legal Systems & Skills provides essential knowledge and skills for underpinning legal studies, providing a foundation for graduate employability both within and outside the legal service profession. It develops students’' understanding in three core areas: legal systems, legal skills, and professional development and commercial awareness. The first part of the book looks at legal systems, sources of law, legislation, case law, and legal services and ethics. The next part considers, in the context of academia and practice, how to read and understand law, legal research, problem solving, oral communication and presentations, client interviews and meetings, negotiation and mediation, mooting, advocacy and criminal advocacy competitions, and writing and drafting. The final part examines employability skills, commercial awareness, business, economics and finance, law firms, and clients.

scholarly journals The Integration of Law into Global Business Solutions: The Rise, Transformation, and Potential Future of the Big Four Accountancy Networks in the Global Legal Services Market

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 981-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Wilkins ◽  
Maria J. Esteban Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Sarbanes Oxley ◽  
Corporate Web Sites ◽  
Big Four

Using a unique data set comprised of original research of both the corporate Web sites of the Big Four—PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, and EY—and their affiliated law firms, as well as archival material from the legal and accountancy press, this article documents the rise and transformation of the Big Four legal service lines since the enactment of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. Moreover, it demonstrates that there are good reasons to believe that these sophisticated players will be even more successful in penetrating the corporate legal services market in the decades to come, as that market increasingly matures in a direction that favors the integration of law into a wider category of business solutions that these globally integrated multidisciplinary practices now champion. We conclude with some preliminary observations about the implications of the reemergence of the Big Four legal networks for the legal profession.

scholarly journals The Future of Law Firms (and Lawyers) in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony E. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Predictive Analytics ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Accounting Firms ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Contract

Abstract This article explores the future for lawyers and law firms in the light of the changes that Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is already bringing to the universe of legal services. Part I briefly describes some of the ways AI is already in use in ordinary life - from facial recognition, through medical diagnosis to translation services. Part II describes how AI is transforming what it means to provide legal services in six primary areas: litigation review; expertise automation; legal research; contract analytics; contract and litigation document generation; and predictive analytics. Part III explores who are the providers of these AI driven legal services - often non-lawyer legal service providers - and how these providers are replacing at least some of what clients have traditionally sought from lawyers. Part III also discusses the implications of all these changes both for the future role of lawyers individually, and in particular what services will clients still need lawyers to perform: judgment, empathy, creativity and adaptability. In turn, this Part examines what will these changes mean for the size, shape, composition and economic model of law firms, as well as the implications of these changes for legal education and lawyer training. Part IV identifies the principal legal, ethical, regulatory and risk management issues raised by the use of AI in the provision of legal services. Finally, in Part V the article considers who will be the likely providers of AI based services other than law firms: legal publishers, major accounting firms and venture capital funded businesses.

Study intentions to stick with the profession of legal counselors at legal service organizations in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-B) ◽  
pp. 218-229
Author(s):  
Trương Duc Thao ◽  
Vu Quang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equations ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Model Estimation ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Survey Results

This study is based on the survey results of 398 legal counselors working at 50 organizations providing legal services (law firms, law firms, notary offices, etc) in Vietnam. intention to stick with the job under the influence of a number of factors. Data collection was conducted during the period from March 7 to 8, 2020, the data collected is processed in software on SPSS2 0 and AMOS24, model estimation and testing hypotheses by structural equations (SEM). Research has identified four factors affecting the intention to stick with a career of legal counselors in legal consulting service organizations in Vietnam. On that basis, the study gives some recommendations to improve policies and legal regulations on developing a contingent of legal advisors in law firms in Vietnam.

How Data Will Enable the Shift Towards the Productisation of Legal Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Drane
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Base Level ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Customer Outcomes

AbstractSimon Drane writes that the next decade will see a shift within legal service provision, where it will transition from a model which is predominantly geared around internal work processes to one that is geared around customer outcomes. Law firms will complete their evolution from a bill by the hour service-based model to something closer to a product subscription model. This shift will deliver growth, sustainable recurring revenues at high margins and new higher value service opportunities. At the core of this shift is the changing nature of consumption driven by consumer technology and the inexorable drive for base level information to become free. Law firms are sitting on vast quantities of data, and yet very few are currently harnessing this effectively in their offerings. The effective use of data combined with technology will allow innovative organisations to provide a new form of productised offering which will not only drive new recurring revenues but will allow them to offer higher value business advisory services. Whereas effective use of data within the organisation will lead to better evolutionary efficiency, quality and risk management, the use of data externally for clients will lead to more revolutionary changes. It will also blur the lines further between traditional law firms and LegalTech product businesses, in the way alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) and the Big Four are already exploring.

Outsourcing the Corporate Governance Officer (Potential Business Model)

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-277
Author(s):  
Dušan Jovanovič ◽  
Borut Bratina
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Law Firms ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Services Outsourcing ◽  
External Vendors ◽  
High Level ◽  
Positive Effect

In the last decades, the legal industry has experienced a global paradigm shift in the delivery model for legal services. This new model, known as legal process outsourcing (LPO), transfers the work of attorneys, paralegals and other legal professionals to external vendors located domestically and overseas. Legal outsourcing (both onshore and offshore) is transforming law practice as law firms and corporate legal departments seek to minimize costs, increase flexibility and expand their in-house capabilities. In this new decade, we have to prepare, with the legal services outsourcing, that we will become more sophisticated, with higher value of legal work, at higher level of quality and speed, and dramatically lower cost. In the Article authors deal with the process of the transformation of legal service into a legal good and point on some dilemmas during that process. This paper argues that outsourcing ultimately will have a positive effect on the legal profession and development of the quality of legal services. In the second part of the paper authors also stress out some information about different possibilities, how to organize virtual law firms for low budget legal services in the Slovenian case and also include some information about the possibility how to organize corporate governance in companies through the corporate secretary as outsourcing, because the corporate secretary is the chief governance officer and provides leadership for the corporation to implement a high level of corporate governance.

scholarly journals Possition of Legal Service Agreement Between Advocates and Clients in Law Number 8 of 1999 on Consumer Protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
Sa'ida Rusdiana
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Legal Services ◽  
Legal Service ◽  
Professional Code ◽  
Service Agreement

AbstractThe legal services agreement established between the Advocate and the Client is bent in submission to the provisions set forth in Law Number 8 of 1999 on Consumer Protection. The rights and obligations arising between the Advocate and the Client under legal service agreement shall be protected by Law Number 8 of 1999. In the event of a dispute between the Client and the Advocate, the execution of the legal services agreement may use dispute resolution as stipulated in Law Number 8 of 1999 on Consumer Protection. Advocates can be regarded as business actors as referred to Law Number 8 of 1999 on Consumer Protection, in addition to performing professional duties that adhered to the professional code of ethics and legislation as mandated by Law No. 18 of 2003 on Advocates, an Advocate through a legal services agreement conducting business activities in various economic fields.IntisariPerjanjian pemberian jasa hukum yang dibuat antara Advokat dan klien tunduk pada ketentuan yang diatur dalam UU No. 8 Tahun 1999 tentang Perlindungan Konsumen. Berkaitan dengan hak dan kewajiban yang timbul antara Advokat dan klien berdasarkan perjanjian pemberian jasa hukum mendapat perlindungan dalam undang-undang tersebut. Apabila terjadi sengketa antara klien dan Advokat dalam pelaksanaan perjanjian pemberian jasa hukum dapat menggunakan payung hukum penyelesaian sengketa sebagaimana diatur dalam UU No. 8 tahun 1999 tentang Perlindungan Konsumen. Advokat dapat dikatakan sebagai pelaku usaha sebagaimana dimaksud dalam UU No. 8 tahun 1999 tentang Perlindungan Konsumen, karena selain menjalankan tugas profesi yang berpegang pada kode etik profesi dan peraturan perundang-undangan sebagaimana diamanatkan oleh UU No. 18 Tahun 2003 tentang Advokat, seorang Advokat melalui perjanjian pemberian jasa hukum menyelenggarakan kegiatan usaha dalam berbagai bidang ekonomi.

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