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Towards the Uberisation of Legal Practice

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dc.contributor.authorThornton, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-03T03:25:39Z
dc.date.available2020-04-03T03:25:39Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.date.updated2019-11-25T07:49:46Z
dc.description.abstractUber and Airbnb signify new ways of working and doing business by facilitating direct access to providers through new digitalised platforms. The gig economy is also beginning to percolate into legal practice through what is colloquially known as NewLaw. Eschewing plush offices, permanent staff and the rigidity of time billing, NewLaw offers cheaper services to clients to compete more effectively with traditional law firms. For individual lawyers, autonomy, flexibility, a balanced life, well-being and even happiness are the claimed benefits. The downside appears that NewLaw favours senior and experienced lawyers while disproportionately affecting recent graduates. This article draws on interviews with lawyers in Australian and English NewLaw firms to evaluate the pros and cons of NewLaw.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn2652-4074en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/202727
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. As an open access journal, articles are free to use with proper attribution.en_AU
dc.publisherQueensland Institute of Technologyen_AU
dc.rights© The Author/s 2019en_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licenceen_AU
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourceLaw, Technology and Humansen_AU
dc.titleTowards the Uberisation of Legal Practiceen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage18en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationThornton, Margaret, ANU College of Law, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidThornton, Margaret, u4352908en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor180121 - Legal Practice, Lawyering and the Legal Professionen_AU
local.identifier.absfor180119 - Law and Societyen_AU
local.identifier.absfor180199 - Law not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.absseo940405 - Law Reformen_AU
local.identifier.absseo940499 - Justice and the Law not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.absseo940406 - Legal Processesen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu4455135xPUB205en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume1en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.5204/lthj.v1.i1.1277en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://lthj.qut.edu.au/abouten_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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