A conceptual framework for the implementation of Industry 4.0 in legal informatics

•A conceptual framework implementing Industry 4.0 in legal informatics was developed.•The implementation of legal tech Industry 4.0 has a significant impact on legal informatics systems.•Cybersecurity and data governance are identified as major legal & ethical issues.•Sustainable legal-tech consideration is limited in the legal domain. The growing number of applications of Industry 4.0 in the field of legal informatics offers huge opportunities for data scientists and academic researchers. The term Industry 4.0 is defined as “the fourth industrial revolution that connects embedded systems to Cyber-Physical-Systems”. It emphasizes the end-to-end digitalization of all physical resources and integrating digital environments with the value chain organizations. Industry 4.0 comprises a variety of technologies such as Cyber-Physical-Systems, Big Data, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity. It has been found that the implementation of these technologies may be useful in achieving the objective of legal informatics. It can help lawmakers to align jurisprudence by providing modern computational technologies to improve and advance the traditional legal justice system. Further, the integration of legal informatics with Industry 4.0 will be strengthening the legal justice system by providing decision-making support, data transparency, real-time monitoring, cost-effective solution, and triple-bottom-line performance in the future. Therefore, the article aims to determine the implementation patterns of Industry 4.0 technologies in legislative institutions and administrations. The study proposes a conceptual framework that integrates Industry 4.0 with legal informatics. The findings show that implementing Industry 4.0 technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Cloud Computing plays a vital role for legal firms that are currently in the nascent stage of development.