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<b><i>Legal Tech:</b></i> Modernizing Litigation Practice: What Can the U.S. Learn from Electronic Courtrooms and Paperless Trials Abroad?
Legal professionals interested in the next wave of innovation in litigation technology can look overseas to the developments over the last several years in the UK and Singapore.
In the UK, government ministers and influential judges have made substantial efforts and committed funding that build on the dramatic efficiencies and cost savings that cloud technology made possible during the trial of a now-famous case, Berezovsky v. Abramovich, [2011] EWHC 1143 (Comm) ' a massive, multibillion dollar dispute that was tried in the UK's Commercial Court in 2011.
The result has been an ambitious series of new projects to modernize British courts and the criminal justice system nationwide, including plans to digitize case files in every legal matter, the provision of “e-Bundles” to attorneys before trial, deployment of electronic filing and comprehensive case management systems in many of the country's most important courts, and a strong push for paperless practices at nearly every step of the litigation process.
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