With advancement in every field, and the digital world encompassing every nook and corner, the demand and expectations of the clients have found a rise in the legal industry as well. To keep up with the competence, today's law practitioners are expected to be tech savvy, prompt and also be able to represent the client in all jurisdictions and forums. To match with the emerging trends, law schools these days emphasize on incorporating technology blended learning and multidisciplinary courses including practical methods in their curriculum.  Here is an insight into the emerging trends in the field of Legal Studies.

1. Future of Law
An insight into emerging trends
in the field of Legal Studies

2. THE FUTURE OF LAW
The fast and continuous changes happening in the
society and technology have a great influence on
the way Law is taught at the institutions.
To match with the emerging trends, law schools
these days emphasize on incorporating
technology blended learning and multidisciplinary
courses including practical methods in their
curriculum.

3. 3
SWITCHING TO E-DISCOVERIES
● People are more into electronic devices to share,
chat and communicate via digital medias, social
medias, voicemails, emails and e-calendars,
● Law practitioners need to get on par with this digi
world practices and upgrade themselves to these
new means of communication.
● Electronically stored information (ESI) is the new
process referred to as e-discovery or electronic
discovery that the law practitioners need to consider.

4. 4
SOCIAL NETWORKING & SOCIAL MEDIA
● Social media forms the salient part of everyone's
life today and a lot of data is exchanged on social
forums.
● Social media helps the law firms in finding
deserving clients and hence interaction and
further investigation too when required is done
with the help of social media.
● Social media also helps the law firms or
independent law practitioners to reach a larger
audience by advertising and personal branding.

5. 5
TECHNOLOGY IN LAW CURRICULUM
Law schools globally are reviewing the curriculum to
encourage the budding lawyers to learn certain
technologies like -
● Artificial Intelligence and law
● Cyber security and law
● Blockchain and law
● Alternate dispute resolution mechanisms
● Space law
● Education law
● Big Data Analytics
● Machine Learning

6. 6
CYBER SECURITY & LAW
● Legal industry needs the knowledge of cyber
security as the fast paced-digitization is
expanding the business horizons, making it more
vulnerable to security threats and hackers.
● Legal firms if not secured well, will have a major
downfall, risk of losing confidential client
information easily with any kind of security
breach.

7. 7
VIRTUAL LAW FIRMS & OUTSOURCING
• Welcome to 2020 where everything is turning virtual
and why not law firms?
• Easy client connections, customer- focused service,
major time saving factor, flexibility and cost-
effective set up - virtual law firm is a major trend in
the current legal practice!
• Virtualization is making it convenient to allow cross-
country legal-teams come together, making
outsourcing easier.

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A PARADIGM SHIFT
● To summarise - law schools and legal studies will
have to shift from the traditional methodologies,
incorporate practical learning and introduce
technology integrated law courses to stay abreast
with the advances in technology
● Collaboration of multidisciplinary courses will
enhance the quality of client-services.
● Considering these emerging trends which are re-
shaping the legal world, it is highly effective to be in
sync with the trends to gain a competitive edge.

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REVA SCHOOL OF LEGAL STUDIES
● The School offers B.A., LL B (Hons.) and BBA., LL
B (Hons.) of five-year (10 semesters) duration
and undertakes consultancy projects.
● Excellent infrastructure including Moot Court,
Counseling Cell, late hours library with a variety of
print and online resources.
● The School has an active participation with:
• University of California, Riverside, USA
• UC Davis School of Law, California, USA