Technology is a very important part of society today by helping people to learn, making many tasks in life easier, and simplifying jobs across many career fields. In the legal field, there are many jobs that use technology to make enforcing laws simpler; some legal jobs that are simplified by the use of technology include police officers, lawyers, and paralegals. This literature review will delve into some of the different technologies that police officers, lawyers, paralegals, and judges use to simplify their jobs of enforcing our nations laws.
First, one of the newer technological devices that has been introduced into the police branch of law enforcement are license plate readers. License plate readers are used by police officers in order …show more content…
In order to do the majority of these tasks, databases are largely used to research, and find documents quickly for assigned cases. Jessica Rurey (2016) said this about how technology has changed the legal field for law firms and paralegals, “Technology plays a large role in the legal field in a variety of areas from the practice of law itself to legal practices in general. There are many new (within the last 20 years) guidelines, rules and regulations in using technology in general as a business practice and in law. Changes and advancements in technology has created a ‘sub-career’ within the legal field known as e-discovery”. E-discovery is the process of lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals electronically researching and discovering, information and evidence to be used in court cases. E-discovery has made researching information for cases much simpler by searching through legal documents for key words or phrases for matches in a matter of seconds or minutes (Krause, 2012). This significantly cuts down on the time that legal professionals have to spend researching when compared to manual research through paper …show more content…
In a study conducted by the State Bar of Wisconsin in 2011 regarding challenges that the legal professional faced currently or would be facing in the coming years, it was noted in the report that with the observed rapid paced that practices are going at now and with client expectations being higher than ever, lawyers need to adapt to new technology or they would ultimately face extension in today’s world of law (Dixon Jr., 2015). Even in court rooms lawyers are beginning to utilize technology. Lawyers have access to computers, iPad’s, projection screens, etc. to broadcast their evidence and arguments so people in the court room are able to see what is being presenting, which ultimately is causing trials to become very visual (Lederer, 2014). In order to keep up with our extremely visual and technological society, the field of law as a whole must utilize new technologies and continue to change with technology as it
First, one of the newer technological devices that has been introduced into the police branch of law enforcement are license plate readers. License plate readers are used by police officers in order …show more content…
In order to do the majority of these tasks, databases are largely used to research, and find documents quickly for assigned cases. Jessica Rurey (2016) said this about how technology has changed the legal field for law firms and paralegals, “Technology plays a large role in the legal field in a variety of areas from the practice of law itself to legal practices in general. There are many new (within the last 20 years) guidelines, rules and regulations in using technology in general as a business practice and in law. Changes and advancements in technology has created a ‘sub-career’ within the legal field known as e-discovery”. E-discovery is the process of lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals electronically researching and discovering, information and evidence to be used in court cases. E-discovery has made researching information for cases much simpler by searching through legal documents for key words or phrases for matches in a matter of seconds or minutes (Krause, 2012). This significantly cuts down on the time that legal professionals have to spend researching when compared to manual research through paper …show more content…
In a study conducted by the State Bar of Wisconsin in 2011 regarding challenges that the legal professional faced currently or would be facing in the coming years, it was noted in the report that with the observed rapid paced that practices are going at now and with client expectations being higher than ever, lawyers need to adapt to new technology or they would ultimately face extension in today’s world of law (Dixon Jr., 2015). Even in court rooms lawyers are beginning to utilize technology. Lawyers have access to computers, iPad’s, projection screens, etc. to broadcast their evidence and arguments so people in the court room are able to see what is being presenting, which ultimately is causing trials to become very visual (Lederer, 2014). In order to keep up with our extremely visual and technological society, the field of law as a whole must utilize new technologies and continue to change with technology as it