LEGAL RESEARCH ON THE DIGITAL MARKET.
TRANSFORMATION OF THE LEGAL RESEARCH THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. Technology is the catalyst by which the world turns. Over the past several years, technology has had a significant impact on the practice of law. With the rise of the internet, most professionals use free online resources to help in the legal research process. The practice of law for lawyers is changing as well. Lawyers once did all of their legal research using books. However, now most of that research is done electronically with legal research databases such as Kenya Law Database . One of the biggest steps that have enabled technology in law to involve is the digitalization and storage of case law, statutes, and regulations. The Kenya Law Reports has made their entire Collection of case law available to the public. This has enabled technology firms to aggregate, store, and provide statistics about the law in a way that we have not seen in the past. With the rise of smartphone technology, people have access to...