First, a law school that recognizes the approaching
crisis in legal service delivery outside of urban centers is a small but significant step to addressing the problem before it becomes really serious.
The use of
AI in legal service delivery is exciting and represents a great opportunity, particularly for early adopters, but it has a vicious sting in the tail.
The CBAFutureschat is a warm - up event for a CBA Legal Conference panel on Aug. 15 titled All About Legal Innovations, where speakers Blase and McFarlane will share
innovations in legal service delivery around the world, and invite participants to do their own blue - sky thinking about innovations in the Canadian legal marketplace.
Relentlessly creative, curious, and dissatisfied with the status
quo in legal services delivery, Mr. Ling was recently recognised as one of North America's Top 10 Innovative Lawyers by The...
It's revealing that in the survey, CLOs were asked to rate the pressure they're placing on law firms to change the value
proposition in legal service delivery, as opposed to simply cutting costs.
Only a few weeks after publication, reviews by clients, law firm leaders, consultants and commentators show why Remaking Law Firms: Why and How is being so well received, filling a large and critical gap for all
involved in legal services delivery.
«We are seeking and recognizing creativity and new ways of
thinking in legal services delivery,» said COLPM president Ron Staudt, Associate Vice President and Professor of Law at Chicago - Kent College of Law.
Other recent events were titled
Disruption in Legal Service Delivery: What Students and New Lawyers Need to Know; Hack Justice: An Access to Justice Hackathon; and Communication 2.0: Social Media Best Practices.
Quoting Bridgesmith: «As the 2015 Altman Weil Law Firms in Transition survey reveals, law firm leaders from firms of every size understand that the glory days of economic
growth in legal service delivery will never return.
There is a large
gap in our legal service delivery system for low and moderate - income individuals and families who earn too much to qualify for legal aid but not enough to pay for traditional legal services at market rates.
The output of legal hacking could be a tech - based solution (e.g., legal tech, reg tech, or civic tech), an
improvement in legal services delivery, or a new way of addressing a public policy issue such as data protection, intellectual property, or the sharing economy.
Remaking Law Firms also covers the de rigueur topics of artificial intelligence, expert systems and machine
learning in legal service delivery, and of course this is to be expected.
Joanne is one of Australia's most respected strategic legal advisors and is a recognised international thought
leader in legal services delivery and disruptive legal service models.
As Ryan McClead points out at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, «We know what the next great
innovations in legal service delivery are, even if we don't know exactly how they are going to work or what they are going to look like.»
Relentlessly creative, curious, and dissatisfied with the status
quo in legal services delivery, Mr. Ling was recently recognised as one of North America's Top 10 Innovative Lawyers by The Financial Times.
To my mind, the most telling result is this: The survey asked Chief Legal Officers (CLOs) to rate how much pressure corporations are putting on law firms to change the value
proposition in legal service delivery, as opposed to simply cutting costs....
As lawyers effectively are already project managers, other project - trained professionals are being
involved in legal service delivery, to take care of the process and thereby reducing the law firm's overall costs of its project team, while allowing the lawyers to focus on the legal issues at hand.
The Legal Technology Assessment (LTA) is a competence - based learning and benchmarking platform focused on the core technology tools
used in legal service delivery: Word, Excel, and PDF.
One technology director of a large firm told me a couple of years ago that they thought that Richard Susskind «s work, portending a radical
shift in legal service delivery, is «full of sh --».
Further thought — a logical question raised by all the foregoing, of course, is why haven't clients risen up and demanded innovation
in legal services delivery?
Those involved in the justice system and
in legal service delivery have a shared responsibility to increase the legal capabilities of everyone in Canada.
The Report notes that «[m] any law schools are now educating law students about innovation
in legal services delivery,» including courses «on e-discovery, outcome prediction, legal project management, process improvement, virtual lawyering, and document automation.»
Joanne is regularly invited to speak at legal conferences on innovation
in legal service delivery and effective legal project management.
Instead of fighting over a larger piece of an ever shrinking pie for which the math simply doesn't work, legal technology interoperability will make the pie bigger to the benefit of
all in the legal service delivery industry.