Brisbane Legal  22 February 2017 James Perkins
"YOU might have seen lawyer bots now", says Terri Mottershead as she discusses how technology has disrupted the law profession in recent years with Brisbane Legal.

Having not heard of lawyer bots until that moment, Brisbane Legal later finds out that a teenager in London created DoNotPay in September 2015, which has so far helped successfully appeal 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York.

DoNotPay's creator, Joshua Browder, became the youngest person to be listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List last year and is now working on making lawyer bots to help refugees fill out asylum claims.

Mottershead, the director of the Centre for Legal Innovation at the College of Law, has just edited a new book, Innovating talent management in law firms: developing tomorrow's legal workforce, which aims to prepare lawyers and firms for the future of law.

Technology is one of three things that have disrupted the profession in recent years, says Mottershead - the others being globalisation, and the client.

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