Digitization of lawyer’s activities

The article examines certain issues of the lawyer’s use of modern automated systems, digital and information technologies. It is emphasized that the professional activity of a lawyer is related to receiving, processing, storing and transmitting a large amount of information of various kinds. Therefore, without knowledge and use of computer technologies in general, trends in computerization and informatization, information systems, etc., a lawyer cannot effectively perform his functions. The influence of information technologies on the activities of lawyers, in particular, is largely determined by the direction of state administration and modern policy of most countries, including Ukraine, on the digitization of various spheres of society’s life. Digitization is defined as a process that includes digital transformation, automation and manifests itself in the form of a change in procedures regulated by legislation and associated with the transition from paper-based processes to direct online procedures that require the direct participation of an intermediary or a competent authority, using the Internet. Automated information systems and workplaces, computer databases and data banks provide not only efficient processing and storage of information received by a lawyer, but also the ability to quickly search for the necessary facts. Along with the concept of digitization, the concept of Legal Tech (from the English Legal Technology – information technology in legal activity) is increasingly entering legal practice - the field of combining legal practice and digital technologies, mainly through the creation and development of computer programs in the broadest sense ( offline and online applications, chatbots, scripts, search engines and much more) in order to increase the efficiency, speed, quality, convenience and economy of solving certain legal tasks. Digitalization of the bar as an important standard for the functioning of this institution involves, first of all, the use of modern electronic technologies in the work of a lawyer and bar self-government bodies. Therefore, the effectiveness of a lawyer’s professional activities largely depends on the level of his information provision and the ability to apply it.