Britains Next Top Model

The emergence of the Internet in the last decade has been a revolution in the business world. The legal market has seen the emergence of many new technologies that could save Solicitors much time and money. Electronic filing is a recent phenomenon that allows companies to store all client files in an electronic database. All documents are scanned and stored in an online system and can be accessed from anywhere, at any time. This will ultimately less office space to be occupied and reduces problems associated with lost files or lost. document assembly system is new technology that produces a draft of a document required, thereby reducing the amount of time a lawyer goes writing and production of documents, thus avoiding the costs. The new technology allows these systems collating documents to be delivered through the Internet and can be used by all customers.

Another innovation that appeared in the UK's online legal matching, through which customers submit online applications that are sent only to firms that are appropriate in a position to meet their demands. Takelegaladvice.com was created in 2006, and it offers this service. Clients are placed in contact with lawyers, while having appropriate access to reviews and comments from other customers. This makes the whole process of finding legal counsel more transparent.

Another tool that can be used by customers is customer relationship systems, whereby customers can track the progress of their case through an online system. He compares it to how we can follow the progress of an order on Amazon, enabling customers to predict how the work will cost, which makes the process more transparent.

In recent years, the United States and Great Britain have seen the emergence of a new law firm model that uses technology to reduce costs. This new model differs from the traditional society of law in that the lawyers of Commerce office work home, saving a huge amount of overhead and therefore less expensive offering legal advice to clients. The software systems that allow access to independent lawyers to web servers and document management systems have made this alternative model. All administrative and secretarial support is provided to lawyers in a small central office in which they all pay a small fee. The company acts as a central hub so that it deals with billing, insurance and marketing and essentially provides lawyers with a brand. He is also the basis by which lawyers can be contacted and give lawyers who would otherwise solo safeguarding services they need to operate more efficiently and offer legal advice to a more competitive rate. Research has shown how this business model viable alternative could be on the Irish legal market, and whether or not we are likely to follow trends in the United States and Great Britain.

This business model has been around the U.S. since 2000. Axiom Legal, the market leader in the United States has a number of offices throughout the United States and has clients such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Cisco, Google and Yahoo. Solicitors are not the only professional services providers have implemented this. Eden McCallum, a management consulting firm in Great Britain, created in 2000, works this way. It was a huge success and is now the second largest consulting firm McKinsey in London after strategy.