The rise of microcomputers and the power that they've brought
have revolutionized nearly every professional discipline, not the
least of which is the field of law. This work presents a survey of
microcomputers and decision-aiding software in law practices and
the legal process, offering a variety of perspectives from
contributors around the world. The book defines decision-making
software as having the ability to aid in the processing of a set of
law-related alternatives, relative criteria, or rules for
determining which alternative should or will be chosen and the
relationship between each alternative and criterion. These basic
ideas are applied to the work of various members of the legal
community, including practicing lawyers, legal policy-makers, and
legal scholars.
Following a detailed introduction that provides an overview of
the nature, trends, and costs/benefits of decision-making software,
the book focuses on the different members of the legal community
and the normative and predictive questions that microcomputers and
software can help to answer. Part One deals with the practicing
lawyer, who must decide whether to go to trial or settle out of
court, and predicts the outcome of going to trial or the effects of
alternative contract clauses. The legal policymaker, who must
decide among alternative statutes and predict the effect of legal
policy, is addressed in Part Two. Topics of discussion here include
the role of computers in federal tax compliance and using computers
to assist in sentencing. Part Three examines the legal scholar and
law training, covering subjects such as the American legal computer
education and using microcomputers in case-method teaching.
Finally, Part Four provides analyses that cut across all three
parts of the legal profession, with special concentration on legal
prescription and prediction that apply to a wide variety of legal
fields, countries, and purposes of the law. This volume will be of
particular interest to practicing lawyers in government and private
practice, law professors and students, and legal researchers and
librarians. Public, academic, and law libraries will also find it
to be a valuable addition to their collections.
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