- Title
- Electronic Signatures and Lawyers: Potential Not Reached?
- Creator
- Nashkova, Suzana; Nehme, Marina
- Relation
- Adelaide Law Review Vol. 44, Issue 2, p. 571-607
- Relation
- https://law.adelaide.edu.au/adelaide-law-review#volume-44-number-2-2023
- Publisher
- Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Electronic signatures (‘e-signatures’) have been an integral part of commercial transactions for decades. Despite the benefits e-signatures offer and the fact that they can represent a vehicle for achieving lawyers’ utilitarian and value-expressive perspectives, their adoption in the course of legal transactions has been slow. Factors that underpin lawyers’ reticent attitudes to adopt e-signatures are still — albeit less so as time passes — embedded in their psyche and reflect the regulatory and usage barriers to their adoption. This article hence analyses lawyers’ incentives to rely on e-signatures but also the barriers which prevent lawyers from using them to their full potential. The theoretical observations are informed by findings of a broader empirical study probing lawyers’ approaches toward the adoption of innovative practices in the legal profession. The overall analysis illustrates that, while there has been a shift in the way lawyers perceive e-signatures, the potential for their use is far from being realised and more needs to be done with respect to the regulatory and usage barriers that may hinder lawyers’ reliance on these signatures.
- Subject
- electronic signatures; e-signatures; innovative practices; legal profession
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1495135
- Identifier
- uon:53971
- Identifier
- ISSN:0065-1915
- Language
- eng
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