Legal profession and information and communication technologies: A necessary discussion

Abstract

This paper states that despite the growing importance of the so-called information and communication technologies (ICT) for the legal profession in recent years, its study and eventual teaching has been restricted in our environment, first, in a basic use of this technologies as pedagogical resources, and second, to a dogmatic-juridical approach of the phenomenon (law and technology), without noticing the impact they are likely to have, in the medium and long-term, as professional skills exorbitant to the traditional curriculum, but necessary for future job performance.