The brave new world at the intersection of Law and technology – business Newspaper (press release)

PLMJ will organize a cycle of ten lectures on the crossroads of Law and technology. In an interview to the business Newspaper, Manuel Lopes Rocha and Pedro Lomba have the initiative.

throughout the year, PLMJ will organize a cycle of ten lectures on the crossroads of Law and technology, in which they will be discussed topics such as the new legal pluralism. The panels have the presence of magistrates, lawyers, academics and figures in media.

The main question that a client makes to a lawyer is probably the following: "What chance do I have?". Happy the office and the citizens that have knowledge of the instrument that will make it possible to track decisions and to know in percentage what are the chances and the compensation that the court shall determine. Or not? This is one of the discussions that will take place in the colloquia Entitled Mega Wave.

Manuel Lopes Rocha, the coordinator of the team of Intellectual Property at PLMJ, has been working for 30 years on these matters, and that "the Internet and networks have swallowed whole the system", and that issues of justice become technological. The partner from PLMJ believes that "the Right jumped out of the codes", as they are to arise, new ways to exercise that are not stipulated in the laws, such as the soft law and codes of ethics or of conduct about cookies.

The debate also settled in France, after the promulgation of the "loi numérique," which will require that all decisions of the courts are online. The standard proposed by the secretary of State Axelle Lemaire has raised questions about privacy and, in the perspective of the lawyer, is connected to the business of justice anticipatory, that sooner or later will come to Portugal.

"companies are creating algorithms that go behind these sentences, which will allow to sell services that anticipate the decision. Our righteousness is not much different from the French and is going to get here," said the partner, ensuring that the mission of the PLMJ is to put the subject of the debate. The 23 of march I will talk about this merger of the world robotic and Artificial Intelligence to the courts, and law firms. Asked about the existence of trainings and courses in this sense, Manuel Lopes Rocha says that "the Order of Lawyers is completely to the east" and that the Ministry of Justice has no comments on the theme. "When the house is burning, will treat" quips.

In the same optic, Pedro Lomba, consultant at PLMJ, ensures that if you had to identify an area which will mark a part of the development of the Law in the next few years I would not hesitate to talk about this intersection between Law and technology. The former Deputy secretary of State warns that in the Health sector there have been developments in the field of treatment of clinical data, and that "it is very easy for someone to have a fascination with the technology."

The idea came up in conversation between the two friends and colleagues, who did not rule out the hypothesis of continuing the meetings for the year. The cycle of conferences "Right Mega Wave" began on Thursday, January 26, and runs throughout 2017 in the auditorium of the PLMJ, in Lisbon, and in the Library of the Serralves Foundation, in Porto. The entrance is free of charge, upon prior registration.