For the CEO business law consulting firm Ibarra Navarrete & Kublich SC., martha elizabeth ibarra The legal practice of business is changing day by day due to digitalization and the constant use of all technologies applicable to legal work and its advances contribute to improving and innovating the activity, with the benefits that this entails for all stakeholders who seek optimal results in the proper application of the law, in favor of their interests.

However, Elizabeth Ibarra warns that for legal professionals “it is also a good time to discuss the implications we are going to face as a result of its appropriate or inappropriate use”.

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He explained that companies in different business sectors are constantly choosing to implement technological foundations in the services they offer, with the aim of simplifying processes, increasing customer satisfaction, generating greater safety and double their productivity:

“Mexico is an excellent example of its implementation in all areas of legal practice. In tax matters, the use of new technologies has made significant progress. This is the case of the Tax Administration Service, which has integrated digital tools and software into all its actions and those of taxpayers”.

“An example in this institution is the tax mailbox, through which it issues notifications to those who are in its files, while allowing citizens to carry out, electronically, a large number of procedures related to their accounting and their control processes; with your returns and compensations; and even, it gives the possibility of filing an appeal for revocation online against acts or resolutions issued by the tax authorities. The use of the electronic signature and any the structure linked to electronic invoicing is another example of the full integration of digital in the tax field”.

The specialist also mentioned that “in the jurisdictions of our country, a large part of the follow-up of the files and the notifications are carried out by e-mail or electronic bulletin, with the agility of the processes that this implies. Nor is the field of industrial property an exception: here, procedures and registrations can be carried out online, through the official portal of the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property. For its part, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation has a formidable search engine for case law and case law, and has an ideal platform for viewing its sessions remotely, since they are recorded”.

He also added that in Mexico and other countries, electronic means are used to celebrate what are commonly called “digital contracts”, which have facilitated national and international negotiations.

The former magistrate also pointed out that robotics and artificial intelligence are advancing every day in the field of technological legal fusion: “An example of this vertiginous race is the development, in the United States of America, of DoNotPay, the first robot lawyer. Its aim is to make legal information more accessible and to provide legal advice to its users, who already number more than two million. Its services range from information on civil, tax, administrative and criminal matters to advice on contesting fines. The most surprising thing is that DoNotPay will become the first artificial intelligence to advise a citizen in a lawsuit.

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“Another prototype that surprised the world is ChatGPT, which managed to pass the admission exam to enter a law school. It is a chatbot, also presented in the United States, which is based on a huge amount of information, the purpose of which is to generate information texts according to what the user asks it to generate”.