Putting legal cases tried in and outside of a court room into
a blockchain environment where those cases and their details
can never be modified by a centralized person or body of
centralized origin INCREASES SECURITY. Court-room
transcripts can be changed or modified by a judge's order to
"strike it from the record!" and change the record of what
actually was said. It would be a better and more transparent
system if all court-room records were entered into a blockchain
system where the trust of a judge and his or her actions no
longer require the trust of the people.
With an extensive number of court-cases and legal information
contained within a blockchain, combined with turing complete
software and smart contracts, legal fees and court-costs will be
greatly reduced because many expenses will not be paid out as
usual.
There are already many times where legal costs are now
cheaper than in previous decades, due to online internet-
based services, such as, Legal Zoom, Inc (tm) and their fine
work at lowering legal costs for anyone. Taken to the next level,
lawyers may no longer be required for each and every court
case that goes on record.
Blockchain technology has "The Right Stuff" to enable lower
costs in many fields, including law or litigation where records
are important to everyone when legal precidence is used. All
books concerning law and court cases can be easily scanned
and translated over to a digital form using optical character
recognition (OCR.)
Lawyers will still be needed in society to handle some of the
less predictable cases. Artificial Intelligence will not appropriately
handle all court and legal cases due to the complexity of people
and the complicated groups and relationships that people form.
Lawyers are NOT obsolete and and will not become obsolescent
any time soon. Lawyers will just need to work harder.