In addressing the fascinating issue of
the future for legal services regulation, I confess that I am starting from a possibly contentious proposition: that the current framework is still essentially founded on a Victorian guild and apprenticeship model.
Richard Susskind's new book (which will be reviewed here shortly) paints a vivid picture of an unbundled, pre-programmed, automated, systematized, packaged and downloaded
future for legal services — a marketplace whose contours and functions are dictated by clients.
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for the environment; the claims of
future generations.
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Popplewell (pictured), who was speaking at
Legal Week «s Commercial Litigation & Arbitration Forum earlier today (2 November), said that providing «a first - class
service at a lower cost» would be crucial to ensure a successful
future for the commercial Bar, and that lawyers and the wider business community should be looking at ways to do this.
Served as chair of the ABA Commission on the
Future of
Legal Services (2014 - 2016) and is special adviser to the ABA Center
for Innovation.
Futures: Transforming the Delivery of
Legal Services in Canada sets out our vision
for how we might educate and regulate the profession differently.
«The 7 models
for legal services» lists the various models the Susskinds» predict
for the
future of
legal and other professional
services.
In the support -
services method,
legal research is given to lawyers who are specialists in doing
legal research, accompanied by sophisticated in - house databases by which all of the office's work - product is captured
for use in
future research projects.
In 2003, he wrote an article
for Legal Times, The
Future of
Legal Secretaries, in which he suggested that firms test the concept of secretarial teams in order to save money and improve client
service.
It's nearly a year since the Canadian Bar Association issued the
Futures Report calling
for an approach to
legal profession regulation and
service delivery that maximizes flexibility and choice
for stakeholders, including clients, lawyers and other
service providers.
As the government consults on the
future of regulation and the market, we will call
for a fair regulatory playing field
for all
legal services.»
The Canadian Bar Association laid out the need
for legal reform in a 2014 report, Futures: Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada (
legal reform in a 2014 report,
Futures: Transforming the Delivery of
Legal Services in Canada (
Legal Services in Canada (PDF).
In comments submitted last year to the ABA Commission on the
Future of
Legal Services, ARAG noted that the U.S. ranks 64th out of 99 countries for overall accessibility and affordability of legal services — on par with Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Ug
Legal Services, ARAG noted that the U.S. ranks 64th out of 99 countries for overall accessibility and affordability of legal services — on par with Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and
Services, ARAG noted that the U.S. ranks 64th out of 99 countries
for overall accessibility and affordability of
legal services — on par with Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Ug
legal services — on par with Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and
services — on par with Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia and Uganda.
Third, and bringing together normative and pragmatic angles, not only has the Canadian
legal profession in general, and many of the provincial self - regulatory organizations more particularly, opened up a policy - making space
for considering how to reformulate the
future of
legal services to improve access to justice, but also, the provincial self - regulators all have an implicit and, sometimes, as in the case of Ontario, an explicit duty to facilitate access to justice in their regulatory activities.
In Law Practice Today, he discusses 5 key elements
for the
future of law practice: a client - centric point of view; a shift in the burden of proof on change; a sense of urgency to find solutions
for better
service delivery; technologies that make
legal services more accessible to clients; and the creative productization of
service offerings to drive down costs.
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legal aid still unclear A message from
Legal Advice and Referral Center Executive Director Breckie Hayes - Snow — Posted October 16, 2017 The federal budget situation for 2018 - including any potential changes to the Legal Servic
Legal Advice and Referral Center Executive Director Breckie Hayes - Snow — Posted October 16, 2017 The federal budget situation
for 2018 - including any potential changes to the
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For its part, the American Bar Association (ABA) Task Force on the
Future of
Legal Education concluded that there should be broader delivery of «law - related»
services.
«The Lab seeks to collect data and develop knowledge and insight about the
future of the
legal service market and on ways to design and steer the collaboration between participants such that it is
future - ready and appropriate
for the market.»
ABA Commission on the
Future of
Legal Services, «
For Comment: Issues Paper Concerning Unregulated LSP Entities.»
«The 7 models
for legal services» below lists the various models the Susskinds» predict
for the
future of
legal and other professional
services.
Truitt, Jack E. «ABA's Commission on the
Future of
Legal Services — Alternate Business Structures
for Law Firms.»
While the economy is slowly limping back to health, the demand
for legal services is predicted to remain flat and jobs are unlikely to return to pre-recession levels in the near
future.
I think we are looking at a time where
legal education is very strong, built on a very strong foundation across the country, but what we're looking at, at a time when the paradigm shift is happening in the way in which
legal services are being delivered and the way in which our understanding of what it means to be a lawyer is changing...
legal education has to be flexible, adaptable, and changing in order to respond, to make sure the lawyers of the
future are ready
for those new challenges.
As the date
for implementation of the
Legal Services Act draws closer, some lawyers have concerns about their
future.
And in their bookThe
Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Richard and Daniel Susskind highlight a number of new roles that must be filled to support the various new models they propose will come to be
for legal services in the coming years.
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for a quick entry point into the Canadian Bar Association «s «
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The recently released «Canadian
Legal Landscape 2017: Issues and Trends Facing Canadian In - house Counsel and Law Firms,» examines how legal services are currently performing and how the legal industry is dealing with disruption and adapting for the future as viewed by those in the profes
Legal Landscape 2017: Issues and Trends Facing Canadian In - house Counsel and Law Firms,» examines how
legal services are currently performing and how the legal industry is dealing with disruption and adapting for the future as viewed by those in the profes
legal services are currently performing and how the
legal industry is dealing with disruption and adapting for the future as viewed by those in the profes
legal industry is dealing with disruption and adapting
for the
future as viewed by those in the profession.
My Home Move collected the
future of
legal services award
for streamlining the exchanging and completing process when buying a property.
The board will provide Integreon's clients with an opportunity to share ideas about
legal service trends, specify
future requirements
for Integreon's
services, and identify opportunities
for collaboration.
The white paper, «The
Future of
Legal Services: Putting Consumers First», published a decade ago, listed six potential benefits
for consumers:
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We have two exciting tracks, one
for those just getting started on the journey AND one that looks at the
future of delivering
legal services.
Meanwhile, these four types of damage caused by the problem are getting worse: (1) to the population in that there are many thousands of people whose lives have been damaged
for lack of
legal services; (2) to the courts in that they are being clogged, as judges have warned, by high percentages of self - represented litigants, because their cases move much more slowly than those that have lawyers; (3) to the
legal profession in that it is shrinking and is predicted to have a very negative
future of contracting and of law firms failing; and, (4) to
legal aid organizations because it is politically very unwise
for governments to fund them better with taxpayers» money, to enable them to provide free
legal services to more poor people, while the majority of the taxpayers can not obtain
legal services for themselves at reasonable cost.
After writing here Monday about Richard Susskind's predictions
for the
future of
legal services and the importance that multisourcing will come to play, I heard from Bloomberg
legal reporter Cynthia Cotts, who wrote a story this week that is right in line with what Susskind said.
Although the restoration project has reached its half way mark, funding and support is crucial, and Peter is now calling
for all those interested in supporting the project, to reach out and help be a part of this tremendously inspiring project, by way of funding,
legal services and awareness, in order to recreate history
for the
future.
Our twice - yearly TBD Law conference is designed to accelerate small firms and other
legal service providers and help them prepare
for the
future of law practice.
Flagship awards include The
Future of
Legal Services Innovation Award, which went to My Home Move last year
for streamlining the exchanging and completing process when buying a property.
That is due, he said, «to the pace of change caused by globalization, the disaggregation of
legal services, the emergence of alternative
legal service providers [and] disruptive technologies... so to prepare lawyers
for the
future needs of the profession is of critical importance.
ClientSide leads the Atlanta
Legal Innovation and Technology Group, which brings together a group of entrepreneurs, lawyers, coders, thinkers, and technologists with a common passion
for advancing the
future of the professional
services industry.
The
Legal Service Plan business model is the
future for LegalZoom ®.
A while ago Deloitte published the results of its survey on «
Future Trends
for Legal Services.»
In August the Canadian Bar Association released a report,
Futures: Transforming the Delivery of
Legal Services in Canada, that calls
for radical changes in rules governing lawyers.
For one, there was the ABA's Report on the Future of Legal Services in the United States, which was unequivocal in its support for the role of technology, stating, «The profession must leverage technology and other innovations to meet the public's legal needs, especially for the underserved.&raq
For one, there was the ABA's Report on the
Future of
Legal Services in the United States, which was unequivocal in its support for the role of technology, stating, «The profession must leverage technology and other innovations to meet the public's legal needs, especially for the underserved.&r
Legal Services in the United States, which was unequivocal in its support
for the role of technology, stating, «The profession must leverage technology and other innovations to meet the public's legal needs, especially for the underserved.&raq
for the role of technology, stating, «The profession must leverage technology and other innovations to meet the public's
legal needs, especially for the underserved.&r
legal needs, especially
for the underserved.&raq
for the underserved.»
Following up on my posts earlier today (here and here) about the acquisition by LexisNexis of Silicon Valley
legal analytics company Lex Machina, I had an opportunity to speak with Steven Errick, vice president and managing director of research
services at LexisNexis, who gave me more details about the deal and plans
for the
future.
There is a challenge in the
future for legal practitioners, both in the manner in which they deliver their
service and the increasing challenge of commoditisation of
legal services in our society.