1. How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business Benjamin Lesjak Teaching assistant – University of Maribor, Faculty of Law e-mail: benjamin.lesjak@uni-mb.sibenjamin.lesjak@uni-mb.si

2. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 2 Introduction  Lawyers: right information at the right time  Public access to the laws in Slovenia legislation, court and government decisions, legal opinions and literature, data from registers and public records, personal experiences, public information etc.  One-way communication is not enough  Automating old techniqiues / new ways  Communication, document, case, knowledge management

3. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 3 E-business at court  E-business at court - conditionally G2C or G2B wider definition of letter G  Action Plan eGovernment Up to 2004 one of the segments concerns justice  E-business between parties at court communication / collaboration process with the court, information and services exchanged, delivered and paid with use of IT start / end of a trial at court.

4. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 4 Survey  E-mail survey  Sample judges of 65 Slovenian Courts of law, lawyers at Slovenian law firms, jurists at both Slovenian faculties of law.  1800 e-mail addresses  163 questionnaires returned

5. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 5 Survey  Demographic data  Presence of IT and preparedness for e-business  Awareness of electronic filing  Perception of e-business

6. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 6 Results and discussion  Profession: judges (36%), lawyers (35.4%), jurists (13.7%), other (14.9%)  Time at job spent on the internet not more then 1 hour (57.7%) more then 1 and less then 2 hours (27%)  Number of received e-mail messages more then 1 and less then 5 (54.3%) more than 6 and less than 10 (22.8%) more than 10 and less than 15 (12.3%)

7. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 7 Results and discussion  89.6% of participants did use World Wide Web search for court decisions (93.3%) search for sources of law (91%) search for legal literature (83.6%) e-banking (46.3%) (57.7% lawyers) online shopping (16.4%) e-government services (8.2%)

8. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 8 Perception of e-business  Filing documents electronically in two years (50%)  Courts should enable electronic filing (near 90%)  Electronic filing would quicken and cheapen trial (near 50%)  Courts should send writings electronically (75%)  Paperless trial in the next two years (disagreed by two thirds)

9. Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business 9 Conclusions  Slovenian lawyers are prepared for adopting e- business at their every day work  Actively use the IT  High expectations of new services (e-filing of documents)  Projects at e-government  Procedural legislation  Prototyping

10. How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business Merkur day 2004 How Slovenian lawyers accept e-business Discussion... benjamin.lesjak@uni-mb.si