Justice Trends 2: Automated Justice Get the Gist of the future for technology in justice

Introduction

In 2015, Shaping Tomorrow explored trends in justice through a gist report that looked primarily at the three major shifts expected to affect the justice system and the legal industry: rapid shifts in the economy, society, and technology. In the three years since that first gist, these shifts, especially technology, continue to have an impact on the justice system.

This 2018 gist provides a focus on automation technologies and how they are expected to affect justice in the future. The six factors the first gist identified—new business models, access to law, client empowerment, increased competition, legal profession shifts, and technology and digital disruption—continue to shape the future of justice and the court system. However, they are converging and changing especially as automation technologies advance.

This gist takes a high level view of the trends. The purpose of the gist is to stimulate thinking within the reader’s own organization about how different scenarios might look for the future of justice. Organizations are encouraged to consider potential trends so that they can plan for the future.