The Economics of Legal Information: New Technologies and Access to Legal Information

Vernon V. Kakoschke was a lawyer in the law department of Canadian Pacific.

This short monograph is the first in a series of works sponsored by CLIC on this topic. Professor Lorimer is an Associate Professor of Communications at Simon Fraser University; Leigh Webber is a consultant in legal information systems. The book considers the impact of the new information technologies on the legal profession. Greater access to computerized databases will certainly affect the way law firms operate and may even change the lawyer-client relationship. The authors reach some interesting conclusions regarding the emergence of private legal information databases and the implications of this trend for society in general and for lawyers in particular.