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    Legal-tech is disrupting Indian market faster than people’s anticipation: Arvind Singhatiya, founder LegalKart

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    Through start-ups like LegalKart, technology is now helping lawyers in their practice by carefully managing several processes through the efficient practice management system.

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    Dr Arvind Singhatiya, founder and chief executive of legal tech startup Legal Kart.
    Technology has changed several traditional sectors and legal too is not far from the change. Technology is now helping lawyers in their practice by carefully managing several processes through the efficient practice management system. In an age where artificial intelligence is remembering their choices and suggesting them standard procedures to reduce manual effort every time, and these changes is just tip of the iceberg says Arvind Singhatiya, founder and chief executive of legal tech startup Legal Kart to Maulik Vyas. Edited excerpts:

    How do you see the technology changing the way lawyers practice in India?

    Key aspects for a practising lawyer is to manage cases, clients, documents, teams and financials. All these aspects are closely knit with each other and require a keen eye-for-detail to create a simple yet powerful management system. Technology is now helping lawyers in their practice by carefully managing these processes through efficient Practice Management System. Artificial Intelligence is remembering their choices and suggesting them standard procedures hence reducing their manual effort every time. Enhanced efficiency, better time management, updated clients and impeccable financial management are the key changes lawyers are experiencing. With the help of technology, lawyers are now better prepared & updated. Technology enables a lawyer to scale-up its practice & presence to multiple forums making his intellectual contribution available to many more courts of practice which were not possible before.

    Technology for Legal Practice Management in India is evolving every day and accommodating different aspects of legal practice. LegalKart introduced India’s first Practice Management App & Dashboard for lawyers, through which we are witnessing revolutionary changes in the way lawyers practise with all their cases at one place along with instant case updates on their mobile and their contribution to various forums together making them super-efficient.

    Is there any realtime example of technology bringing visible disruption in the legal market?
    Take the example of LegalKart, the app-based solution is helping lawyers to track their cases, add their clients, update clients with real-time chat messages, add all kind of costs incurred in the case, send an invoice with just one click. At LegalKart a lawyer can manage team members, share documents with them, seek assistance in real-time, add voice notes to their cases and receive important documents from their clients. LegalKart is also like a Lawyer’s Social Network wherein you will find your collogues, connect with them, share and accept all kind of information and documents.
    In less than a year of its launch, LegalKart is now used by more than 3500 Lawyers in 250 Cities in India. It’s also available in Hindi language and soon we will introduce other regional languages to ensure that legal professionals from all part of the country will have an easy adoption.

    Where do you see the Indian legal market compare to its counterparts in other mature markets such as the US or the UK?
    On comparing Indian legal system with that of developed countries like USA, UK Australia; the glaring difference is the adoption of technology at every level of legal hierarchy. When 95% of Lawyers in UK & 100% Lawyers in the USA are using technology just 4% Lawyers are using any kind of technology in India.

    In India, technology is empowering the legal system through digitization. A Digital legal system is easily accessible and with artificial intelligence, it generates useful data for legal professionals and the judicial system. The technology ensures a faster and a much more transparent system for processing cases. Legal research has become much more convenient and accurate due to the development of useful tech-tools. We are still at the nascent stage of legal technology adoption but the change is already visible with 95% courts going digital.

    Are you in talks with any venture capital fund for further raising funds? Can you help us with details about your plans?
    We have a strong and robust business model which is highly scalable. We are in talks with VC funds to help us scale faster. We are planning to increase our reach to more than 25000 Legal professionals in next one year.
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