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Embrace the technological future says legal expert Jeremy

LEADING Sheffield legal expert Jeremy Brooke says it is time the profession understood and utilised the latest technology if it is to successfully develop in the future.

Speaking in one of the country’s leading legal publications, Personal Injury solicitor Jeremy, the founder of Sheffield law firm Quality Solicitors SSB, says that in an age when a robot can be successfully landed on a comet, any lawyers sitting behind their desks thinking that technology can’t do their job are kidding themselves.

“There is a growing majority of people who expect to be able to access most things in their life via technology,” he says in the latest edition of Legal Futures, Britain’s leading news resource for tracking the country’s fast-evolving legal landscape.

“If lawyers ignore that as an important driver to your business, you really are going to get left behind.”

He adds, though, that while embracing the latest technological advances and adapting them to meet the needs of both the company and clients, Quality Solicitors SSB will maintain its reputation as a company that focuses on the law and then dealing with the complexities that need people.

“It’s a people profession if you do it right and I wouldn’t want this firm to lose its contact with people and the way it serves people, and looks after people’s interests and has those relationships with people,” he says.

“There are increasingly powerful ways of putting together information and digging down into information using technology, and I think the domain of the lawyer and where lawyers are actually needed is vastly shrinking and will continue to shrink.

“So as lawyers we’ve really got to focus on procedure, and tactics, and negotiations – all the bits that really do need the lawyers’ skills and not just the knowledge, because the knowledge side of it can pretty much be taken care of.

“And if it can’t already, it certainly will be able to be in the next few years.”

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