The fourth industrial revolution has changed business models, the way people prefer to develop their work and the labour market. In the latter sense, it has contributed to the emergence of what is known as "gig economy," "freelance economy," or "collaborative economy." The Gig Economy is a global phenomenon that was born in the [...]
At the end of 2017, we had about 45,000 lawyers in Chile, divided between legal departments of companies, legal studies, legal departments of government, teaching and freelance workers, among others; the number is increasing. As for the Studies of Lawyers, according to the book Big Law: Studies of Lawyers in Chile (Iñigo De la Maza G., [...]
The legal sector in our country is increasingly aware that technological tools help in the management of legal signatures and management. This is how they are already investing in technology, however, there is still some degree of reluctance in the legal market to incorporate it, because of the fear that it will replace [...]
It seems to be a constant struggle between the traditional and the new, united only by technology. However, delimiting the generation of thousands of lawyers as technology magnets is not being aware of what this generation represents, and more importantly, the changes that it matters in the legal world. In the past Legaltech Summit carried [...]
Alster Legal was present at the Legaltech Summit Santiago 2018, an activity we celebrate to create and build a space for conversation on the challenges, trends and opportunities of the legal market. We then leave you with our main conclusions: With regard to trends in the legal industry: The current picture in the local and regional legal sector [...]
Many have heard of digital transformation and it may be appropriate to understand this concept and explore the benefits of incorporating technology into a legal department. Digital transformation is the use of technology to radically improve the performance or scope of an organization or area, and this includes its people. Allows to remain competitive in [...]
In the framework of the last Legal Forum of the year, a meeting organized by Alster Legal and Microsoft-supported, we had the privilege of having the participation of Juan Manuel Haddad, Legal Manager of Telefónica Argentina, who led the project of digitization of the legal department of the Telefónica Group. At the meeting, Haddad made an exhibition, about his experience in [...]
A week ago we had the opportunity to participate in the Legal Market Forum organized by Thomson Reuters Chile and Alster Legal. In that instance we could appreciate an intuited but undeclared reality. I am referring to the apparent disconnection between legal service providers and legal business departments. Indeed, it seems that the realities of both worlds are [...]
After the events of last week with the global hacking of multiple companies, we can see the incremental need to prepare our companies for the world of digitization. Three are the main technologies that will allow action to be taken against this reality, blockchain, cloud security or cloud security and artificial intelligence (AI [...]
Over the past few months, I have witnessed and continued to observe many articles generated in specialized media in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium and other developed countries regarding the incremental trend of actors in the world of legal services who have with concern directed their views towards legal service providers [...]