Law has always evolved with a certain delay in relation to society. With the digitalization of the economy, the business world evolved rapidly. Digital tools facilitate from the high management’s decision-making process to the contact with the final consumer, including publicity campaigns and document filings. Digital interactions become legal relations and law must regulate them. Despite the creation of important legal marks, there still isn’t a body of written laws which completely address the relations in a digital environment. It is necessary to make use of existing concepts, which not always fit into the novelties technology provides. This is why Digital Law exists and, within it, the crucial role of the business attorney.

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Digital contracts, digital law suits, and digital discovery are a reality in Brazil. Personal data became assets protected by specific law, which gives the consumer and theemployee new rights. Disloyal competition gains new aspects in the digital world. There is insurance against cyber attacks. Interacting with digital users may soon be a fact triggering taxes in Brazil and in the world. Digital law is the law of the XXI’st century.