Participating in the 5th International Congress on Legal Strategy (CIEL 2025) was a truly enriching experience, through which we explored the transformation currently shaping the practice of law in the Dominican Republic. We analyzed topics that outline the new direction of contemporary law: artificial intelligence, augmented reality applied to the judicial environment, smart compliance, behavioral ethics, and corporate governance. All of these share a common goal: to determine whether we are responding adequately to today’s reality or whether we must evolve toward a new way of thinking and practicing.
What we once understood as “legal strategy” is now an approach that combines technological innovation with regulatory efficiency and corporate sustainability. This congress (CIEL 2025) not only presented keynote lectures, but also became a space where professionals critically reflected on how law firms must adapt to an environment in which regulatory compliance ceases to be a mere requirement and becomes a driver of transformation.
In this context, artificial intelligence emerged as a valuable tool to improve operational efficiency, minimize human error, and strengthen transparency. However, it also brings significant ethical challenges: To what extent can a legal decision be delegated to an autonomous system? How do we ensure the impartiality of an algorithm? These questions, raised during the congress, suggest that the law must learn to engage with technology—not from fear, but through regulation and the design of principles that ensure its responsible use.
At the same time, discussions on behavioral compliance and behavioral ethics emphasized the need to create a corporate culture grounded not only in formal compliance with rules, but in understanding the purpose behind those rules.
Topics such as augmented reality in courtrooms demonstrated how technology can humanize justice: by recreating scenes, visualizing evidence, and eliminating ambiguities that could previously only be explained through words. Likewise, presentations on automated technology and its economic impact opened discussions on how legal frameworks must evolve to accommodate figures that once seemed like science fiction: robot liability, protection of the data they generate, and the redefinition of the concept of legal personhood.
In this constantly changing landscape, corporate governance stands as a strategic pillar. Organizations that integrate ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria into their internal structures not only comply with international standards, but also strengthen their legitimacy and reputational value. From a legal perspective, this represents an opportunity for lawyers to grow into a more proactive, strategic, and sustainability-oriented role.
Ultimately, CIEL 2025 is a reminder that the law cannot remain anchored in traditional paradigms. Demographic, technological, and social changes demand professionals with critical vision—capable of understanding that innovation does not replace ethics, but enhances it.
The convergence of artificial intelligence, ethics, and smart compliance should not be seen as an inevitable risk, but as a real opportunity to strengthen the purpose of law: to serve justice, adapt to present circumstances, and anticipate the future with a critical outlook and responsible professional commitment.
