In this article, Andrew Thornton Q.C. looks at the emergence of digital platforms offering legal services to SMEs and individuals and considers how the Bar might exploit the opportunities they bring.
The Bar’s traditional types and sources of work
 The types and sources of work available to the Bar remain largely undisrupted by the recent boom in legal tech.
Some work is now performed differently as a result of general technological developments and Covid-19 has certainly accelerated the use of digital hearings, but members of the Bar still tend to ply their trade offering the same services as always: advocacy, legal and strategic advice and drafting services through law firms and other providers of instructions at scale.
Similarly, most barristers still target their marketing efforts at ...