法実務に技術を導入すると何が嬉しいか

――「リーガルテック」をシステム導入プロジェクトの視点から考える

抄録

 Recent developments in information processing technology (IT), such as “AI” and “Big Data,” have provided new tools for various fields and affairs. The situation is the same in the legal field: new technologies (or services) which offer tools or solutions for various legal practices ‒ including contract review, dispute resolution, and legal enforcement ‒ continue to emerge year by year. They are called “Legal Tech”.
 This paper aims to align enterprises related to “Legal Tech”. For this purpose, this paper will perform two things.
 First, this paper reviews this developing technology (or service) “Legal Tech”. Due to the ambiguity of the term “Legal Tech,” the overall review of “Legal Tech” requires (1) to take into account not only its R&D trends but also its market trends, and (2) to elucidate the usage of this term to reduce the equivocation that comes from its buzzword nature.
 Second, this paper tries to point out several issues to be considered for the utilization of IT in legal practice to be fruitful. For this purpose, this paper refers to what is already known as the issues that need to be considered when one tries to successfully drive their business along with IT to draw some lessons, and it concludes that the “reengineering” of various processes should be needed to utilize IT in the legal field.