LAWYER OCCUPATION IN DIGITALIZATION AGE

Abstract

The relevance of the research is due to the need to consider the future of the lawyer occupation in Russia in the context of digitalization, as well as to study the process of transformation of the lawyer occupation in new conditions. The purpose of the article is to understand the main directions of digitization of the lawyer occupation, new requirements for the level of training and education of a lawyer, the prospects of the lawyer occupation in Russia and the world. The leading approach to the study of this problem is the methodology developed by legal anthropology, which is supplemented by a system-based method that allows us to comprehensively consider the features of the lawyer occupation in the era of digitalization. The article proves that the further introduction of digital technologies will lead to a complete transformation of the lawyer occupation; the main directions of changes in the lawyer occupation would be to replace the man-lawyer who performs routine, standard legal operation with a robot-lawyer; a key feature of training of lawyers will be the ability to use LegalTech; transformation of the lawyer occupation will lead to the transformation of legal education, which will be expressed in the need for relevant IT training; the specifics of digitization of the lawyer occupation in Russia will largely be determined by its unique characteristics: the vast territory and demographic characteristics of the population; the most important result of digitization of the lawyer occupation will be the division of lawyers into digital and traditional. The materials of the article can be useful for legal scholars who study the problems of digitalization of the lawyer occupation, law students and legal practitioners who are interested in the future of their profession and the main directions of its transformation in the first half of the XXI century.