Advanced Certificate in Allied Legal Professional Skills Module 1: Legal Tech and Innovation
About This Course
Professionals like legal technologists, for instance, have proven their value during the present COVID-19 crisis, by advising lawyers and firms on how to transit into a digital-only mode of business. Hence, it is time for the profession to seriously look at the issue of allied legal professionals, and to give them the professional training and recognition they deserve. This certificate programme is put together to do just that, and hopefully to help fulfil the certification requirements set out for the allied legal professional by the legal fraternity in time to come.
This first module seeks to help participants understand how to use common legal technology tools and eventually implement the legal tech solutions they come up with into their legal practice, and also how to build an innovation culture in their firms.
What You'll Learn
• Understand what technology and innovation mean in the context of the legal industry
• Understand the necessity of technology and innovation, and the challenges that people face taking on such roles in the legal industry
• Understand the current landscape of legal technology and innovation
• Understand how to decide whether to buy a new Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product or invest in bespoke solutions
• Have an understanding of how to match an appropriate solution to the problem at hand
• Understand what the end-to-end timeline for legal tech projects looks like from conception to launch and beyond, as well as the skills needed to take one from the start to a good steady state maintenance
• Understand how to manage stakeholders in legal tech projects, build consensus and get buy-in
• Understand Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning and where it might be useful
• Understand the pros and cons of having structured vs unstructured data, where structured data might be useful, and the limitations / pitfalls of data analytics
• Identify areas of potential innovation and improvement in their area of
Entry Requirements
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