covers use of computers used by lawyers

1. Information Technology and
Legal Education .
Kamlesh Singh.

2. Legal education In the Field Of
Law.
• The traditional image of a lawyer's job is that of a lawyer poring through stacks of
paperwork. While paperwork still is a reality, law practice has changed drastically in the
past 20 years, mainly because of computer technology. In firms large and small, the
extensive use of computers is the norm.
• Online Legal Resarch :- One of the most important uses of computers in the legal profession is
conducting legal research. Many legal projects require extensive legal research, including references
to previously decided cases. Traditionally, companies such as West printed volumes of case law,
requiring attorneys to read through keyword indexes to find relevant case Law . Now, online legal
databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw make the process of searching for case law, legal forms
and treatises much easier.
• Case Management Software :- increased use of computers in the legal workplace has
changed the way firms are managed.
• Electronic filing document :- All federal courts and many state courts now use the
internet for all their case filings. Attorneys need computers to access these online portals,
where they can file lawsuits and any documents they need to file within that lawsuit. Some
jurisdictions will not permit licensed attorneys to file by paper.

3. • Electronic Discovery
Computers have changed the handling of legal discovery projects. Discovery is the process by which
opposing parties to a lawsuit exchange relevant information such as police reports, financial
documents and witness testimony. Traditionally, discovered items were provided as photocopied
documents. In many cases, attorneys and support staff had to manually organize and sift through
thousands of paper documents looking for relevant information. In electronic discovery, important
legal documents are scanned and stored in computer systems. In addition to making document
exchanges easier, electronic discovery lets attorneys organize and examine the documents much
faster and more effectively.
Legal Marketing Online :-
Increasingly, attorneys use computers and the Internet to obtain new clients. Many attorney websites
provide valuable general information such as explanations of legal rights and the legal process. Some
websites allow a potential client to directly email or chat with an attorney before scheduling a
consultation. Lawyers also use social networking platforms to communicate with current and
prospective clients .
Communication via Email :-
Most modern law firms use email more than fax, which used to be the quickest way to send a letter.
Law firm emails combined with smart phones mean that attorneys always have access to their
communications and can stay on top of their cases.

4. Legal Data Base :-
• It provides laws and legal information from another country or
international information for legal researchers, law students,
and lawyers for their practice area. Westlaw International is a
password based and IP address based online legal. research
database.
• Why are Legal Database Important ?
The important feature of this legal database is it provides
privileged access to its users and empowers them with in-depth
legislative, regulatory and procedural information critical for
decision making, without having to go to multiple sources.
Collected evidence are Important
Example of Legal Database :- Westlaw ; HeinOnline ; LexisNexis : JSTOR :
E-Hart

5. Useful Web PortaL For Lawyer’s And Law
Student :-
1. Legal Bites :- Notifies the students regarding the upcoming exams and events organized access to
humungous reading materials, notes for the law subjects in the curriculum, exciting quizzes, case
analysis of various landmark judgments
2. Law Octopus :- providing information regarding different domains of law like internship, jobs,
internship experiences in different firms which are written by people who have had real-time
experience, It also provides students with courses on topics like, ‘Online Moot Courseand
Competition’, Online Certificate Course on Consumer law and practice’. The charges are minimum
for the courses rendering it quite affordable.
3. Live Law:- Legal News Portal covering Indian Courts, Lawyers, Law Firms, and Legal
Developments in India. Independent legal journalism is encouraged by Live Law and endeavors to
bring transparency in legal reporting without lowering the supremacy of law.Independent legal
journalism is encouraged by Live Law and endeavors to bring transparency in legal reporting
without lowering the supremacy of law
4. Manupatra :- online database platform designed for facilitating legal research & offers learning
resources online. Students can find everything on Manupatra ranging from judgments of Supreme
Court, High Courts, Tribunals and Commissions, International database, Bare Acts and statutes,
Bills, Drafts, Ordinances,

6. 5. Bar and Bench legal domain for legal news providing the gist of judgments, updated
information columns, interviews.it bilingual and accessible to students who are more
comfortable in Hindi. It focuses mainly on news
6. SSC Online SCC being the most cited law report by the Supreme Court of India. aw
students vast resources from judgments to journals and EBC reading materials. It will be
helpful for thestudents who are into core research.
7. I pleaders apart from providing legal vast legal material on different issues of law
also offers diplomas and courses like the course on Entrepreneurship Administration and
Business Laws Diploma, training material articles exploring careers in different legal
fields, the importance of academic research
8. Law sikho legal education company that provides advanced and practical legal
courses in form of video lessons form and an e-library that can help the students learn to
speed up their professional development and career progression by offering vast e-
resources . provide practical knowledge beyond what is taught in law schools and help
them develop practical legal knowledge and skills.

7. 9. Lex Warrier online law journal which is an Open Access peer-reviewed academic e-
journal that publishes research articles, comments on case laws and legislations,
opinions on contemporary legal issues, book reviews on broad legal topics with special
emphasis on matters concerning contemporary development in the legal system
10. Law times Journey provides peer-reviewed content which could be beneficial for
the students free of cost and can access weekly legal highlights, internship vacancies,
job vacancies, details of current important events in the legal world like seminars or
talks organized by different colleges and organizations, common like how to register
cyber crime complaint, who is surety in a criminal case, case summaries of important
judgments,
11. Grand Jurist :- Case laws form 1972 covering more than 2 lakh 50 thousand
judgement also covering notification form all areas of laws 14 in number
12 Tax Online Covers tax rules and notification also tax law : provide norms of tax
written in other form

8. 13 . Air :- Case compromise of post 1950 : covering more than one lakh 50 thousand
Judgement cover statue Law commission report
14. SSc cases:- Compromising of research form 1950 Compromising of legal article law
commission crime online
15. Crime online :- Compromising of criminal laws and statutory majority
16. E solicitor case drive :- managing daily case dairy for lawyer or for advocate

9. E-library
• Digital Library; E-Library) A set of documents available
through electronic means by the use of digital technologies that allow for
the retrieval, archiving, preservation, and dissemination of those documents
(Cf. Grand dictionnaire terminologique).
• An ordered collection of heterogeneous electronic documents (including
books) equipped with a navigation and search tool. It can be a website where
various texts are gradually accumulated (more literary, but also any others up
to computer programs) and media files, each of which is self-sufficient and
at any time can be in demand by the reader. Electronic libraries can be
universal, seeking to the widest choice of material (as a library Moshkova
or Librusk), and more specialized, as a fundamental electronic.
• A Physical site and/or website that provides 24-hour online access to
digitized audio, video, and written material.
• Example :- World digital library : Universal Digital library : Google book : Internet
archieve

10. Significance of the New Library :-
• is network accessible
• provides user friendly interface
• support advance search and retrieval
• supports the traditional library mission of collection, development,
organization, access and presentation
• supports publishing, annotation and integration of new information

11. Other tools for the Legal resarch :-
• 1. LexisNexis:- LexisNexis is one of the most popular legal research tools.
It provides access to various legal resources, including case law, statutes,
and regulations. It also has a powerful search engine that makes it easy to
find the information you need. LexisNexis is a good option if you’re
looking for a comprehensive legal research tool. However, it can be
expensive if you’re not part of an organization with a subscription.
• 2. Westlaw:- Westlaw is a research database that contains case law, statutes,
and other legal resources. It can be used to find information on specific
cases or read up on current legislation. Westlaw also offers training courses
to help users learn to use the database effectively.
• 3. Google Scholar :- Google Scholar is a free legal research tool that may
be utilized to discover cases, laws, and other legal materials. Enter your
search terms into the search bar, and Google Scholar will return a list of
results. You can then use the advanced search options to narrow down your
results. Google Scholar is an excellent choice for legal research since it
comes with a wealth of materials, including cases from law reviews and
other academic publications.

12. • 4. FastCase :- Fastcase is a legal research tool that allows you
to access case law, legislation, and rules. It also includes a
particularly effective search engine that allows you to quickly
locate the information you need. For those on a budget,
FastCase is a great legal research solution. However, it does
not offer as many features as some of the other options on this
list. Because there are so many different legal research tools
available, it can be difficult to know which one is right for you.
In this blog post, we have discussed the most popular legal
research tools and given you a brief overview of each one. For
more information on legal research tools, be sure to contact us
today.

13. Use of Search Engine In Legal
Resarch
Technology is one of the greatest blessings in humankind. It has also played a
vital role in the field of legal education. Most of the law firms, courtrooms and
corporateare embracing technology through compliance tools, ecase, e-filling
trademarks and patents, word processing,legal research, document management
softwares etc.And also, the social media is totally flooded with the debate over
technology replacing lawyers. Internet explorer makes it easy to browse
websites. The internet is providing new resarch opportunities for legal resarch .
Technology is very helpful for legal education, allover the globe students are
being trained to usedifferent databases/websites like SCC online,Manupatra,
Lexisnexis and WestLaw, etc. Theseapplications include case laws, statute,
explanation to every law-related things which are very helpful to students and
lawyers as well.

14. Lawyers are using web browsers to access various websitesbecause it helps to improve
the efficiency, it is not possible tohold all the information in the brain or to read the
bulky booksall the time in order to get the solution that’s why technologies are there to
help lawyers in order to get the relevant legal information to the point with no wastage
of time by using different online portals
Legal information can be exchanged in seconds using e-mails, whatsapp etc. The High
Courts and Supreme Court also gives all their Judgments and important information on
their official website

15. Open Acess Journal
• Open access information and knowledge is a key contribution in provisioning universal
access to information and knowledge. With the availability of ICTs, itcontinues to make
changes in every aspect of our society and reshapes scholarly communication in many
ways. Open access journals (OAJ) initiative emerged as a revolutionary movement that
promotes free access to scholarly publications over the Internet, removes the price and
permission barriers and ensures the widest possible dissemination of research and having a
higher impact rates than subscription journals.
• According to Directory of Open Access Journals, Open access journals are“journals that
use a funding model that does not charge readers or theirinstitutions for access.”
• Chracterstic Of Open acess Journal :-
• It is free availability of scholarly publication.
• ii. Materials are available online.
• iii. Journals are full text.
• iv. Journals can be accessed by anybody from anywhere without any
• discrimination.
• v. Journals can be freely used by anyone.

16. Advantage :-
• Free avalaiblity
• High quality and Rigrous peer review
• Greater Knowledge sharing
• Benefit of the author
• Benefit of the socicety
• Benefit of the Nation

17. E-court :-
• The e-Courts Project was conceptualized on the basis of the “NationalPolicy and Action
Plan for Implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the
Indian Judiciary – 2005” submittedby e-Committee, Supreme Court of India with a
vision to transform the Indian Judiciary by ICT enablement of Courts.
• The e-Courts project is a Mission Mode Project (MMP), being implemented by the
National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). It was
created with the objective of providing services to all key stakeholders through ICT
enablement and enhancing judicial functioning. Under the project, a National Judicial
Data Grid (NJDG) has been created to monitor pendency in the lower courts and to act as
a case information repository.
• Chracterstic of E-court :-
• To provide efficient & time-bound citizen centric services.
• To develop, install & implement decision support systems in courts.
• To automate the processes to provide transparency in accessibility of information to its
stakeholders.
• To enhance judicial productivity, both qualitatively & quantitatively, tomake the justice
delivery system affordable, accessible, cost effective,predictable, reliable and transparent.

18. E-litigation :-
• Technological Developments in the field of information and introduction ofcomputers
have made a turning point in the history of human civilization. It has brought about a
sea change in all fields of human activity. It has resulted in enhanced efficiency,
productivity, and quality of output in every walk of life.
• Extensive use of Information Technology by diverse organizations the world overhas
resulted in enhanced efficiency, effectiveness and optimal use of resources. Computers
as well as electronic communication modes such as electronic mail,video conferencing
etc provide the ability to process large volumes of data withspeed and accuracy,
exchange of useful information between different locationsand support a higher quality
of decision making. These capabilities have contributed to more efficient and responsive
systems not only in business organizations but also in legal, governmental and other
public systems.
• While the Information Revolution arrived in India some years ago, automation has not
transformed all facets of life in equal measure. It has not permeated to the Subordinate
judiciary, in particular, resulting in old work methods based on manual systems being
continued even now. The enormous problems being faced by the judiciary due to arrears,
backlogs, and delays can be partly resolved by the introduction of automation in
subordinate courts.

19. • The problems faced by courts, judiciary, and public seeking justice in terms of
backlogs, delays and expense are well known. While there are many dimensions to
these problems, improvements in operational efficiency, co-ordination, accessibility
and speed which IT could bring about can contribute significantly . Towards
Improvement and allevation of the difficulty
• Most of the bottlenecks identified by Judicial Commissions and Committees
referring to delays, arrears and backlog can be partly overcome if a sound judicial
management information system is introduced in India. Case Management, File
Management, and Document Management will be vastly improved by resorting to
the use of computers.
• Reduced cost
• Acess to justice
• Convient and quicker mode of dispute resolution
• Less use of paper

20. E-Governance In court procedure .
The e-Courts Project was conceptualized on the basis of the “National Policy and Action Plan
for Implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the Indian
Judiciary – 2005” submitted by e-Committee, Supreme Court of India with a vision to
transform the Indian Judiciary by ICT enablement of Courts.
• The eCourts project is a Mission Mode Project (MMP), being implemented by the
National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP). It was
created with the objective of providing services to all key stakeholders through ICT
enablement and enhancing judicial functioning. Under the project, a National Judicial
Data Grid (NJDG) has been created to monitor pendency in the lower courts and to act as
a case information repository.
• To provide efficient & time-bound citizen centric services.
• To develop, install & implement decision support systems in courts.
• To automate the processes to provide transparency in accessibility of
information to its stakeholders.
To enhance judicial productivity, both qualitatively & quantitatively, to make the justice
delivery system affordable, accessible, cost effective,
• predictable, reliable and transparent.

21. Recent Scenario :-
• Simple — implies simplification of rules and regulations of the government andavoiding
complex processes with the application of ICTs and therefore, providing a user-friendly
government.
• Moral — meaning the emergence of a new system in the administrative and political
machinery with technology interventions to improve the efficiency of various government
agencies.
• Accountable — develop effective information management systems and other performance
measurement mechanisms to ensure the accountability of public service functionaries.
• Responsive — Speed up processes by streamlining them, hence making the system more
responsive.
• Transparent — providing information in the public domain like websites or various portals
hence making functions and processes of the government transparent.

22. E-Governance Initative
 e-court portal
 Mobile app
 Sms Push
 Automated-emails
 E-filing