LawscotTech Strategy 2024-2028
Background context
The Law Society of Scotland established LawscotTech in 2018 to bring relevant people together to consider the challenges facing the legal profession and try to identify potential legaltech solutions. By bringing people together to share different experiences and expertise and work collaboratively, we sparked creative and innovative thinking. We put together a list of the challenges facing the legal sector that we believed legaltech may be able to solve.
On the back of the COVID pandemic, the LawscotTech aims were revised to meet the rapid adoption of legaltech as below:
- Facilitate a thriving legal technology environment by bringing together solicitors and their employees with technologists.
- Through technological advances, improve efficiencies and create competitive advantages for solicitors and clients.
- Showcase a globally respected hub for legal technology innovation in Scotland.
- Collaborate with partners in other business sectors throughout Scotland and globally.
- Engage the Scottish business community’s interest in the legal sector.
- Stimulate engagement from outwith the legal sector.
Our strategic pillars
LawscotTech is driven by its strategic pillars, each of which sit alongside each other, and none are any less of a priority.
- Work with our universities to embed legal technology and innovation into the syllabus.
- Guide trainees and their supervisors on the use of technology as part of the traineeship.
- Increase the breadth and depth of legal technology skills and experience within the profession.
- Encourage upskilling and identify leadership within the sector.
- Continually publish best practice guidance for procuring and successfully adopting technology in the legal sector.
- Build confidence in decision makers to empower them to invest.
- Facilitate collaborations with legaltech providers, public body organisations and law firms/employers.
- Strengthen cross-sector strategic collaboration to help all our members adopt technology.
- Support our LawscotTech community by celebrating their successes.
- Develop a louder collective voice and ensure everyone working in the legal system in Scotland knows LawscotTech and how it can help them succeed.
- Help to identify the new opportunities opening up for the profession from legaltech.
- Identify barriers to successful technology adoption and act to help remove them.
- Measure success against a baseline by identifying the starting point, 'where are we now?'.
- Develop and maintain a library of challenges defined by the sector.
- Engage in and motivate the discussion of ethics within the profession, wider justice sector and regulatory bodies where these relate to technology.
- Support the use of technology that improves access to justice for all citizens and businesses.
- Develop connectivity amongst different technology clusters.
- Broaden LawscotTech stakeholders across the UK.
- Build upon the learning of others in the wider technology eco-system.
- Promote the importance of the legal sector to the growth of Scotland’s digital economy.
- Encourage technology companies to invest in Scotland by helping them understand the sector.
Our vision
For Scotland to be seen by its citizens, businesses, and global peers as a leading jurisdiction for legaltech innovation that directly benefits clients, practitioners, and the administration of and access to justice.
Our mission
We will inform not instruct on the benefits of legaltech, remove obstacles one at a time, and celebrate and share successes to build momentum.
Our values
Underpinning our work are the following values that everyone involved in LawscotTech is asked to commit to living up to:
- Purpose
- Inclusion
- Creativity
- Transparency
- Diversity
- Clarity
Contact details
For further information, please contact:
Paul Mosson
Executive Director of Member Services and Engagement
Law Society of Scotland
paulmosson@lawscot.org.uk