Millennials are already impacting the legal buy / sell dynamic by introducing new, technology and process enabled, agile
legal delivery models.
Many lawyers once engaged in «practice» will leverage their legal training and work
on legal delivery — business of law — matters.
They also confirmed that technology and process management — together with legal expertise — are all essential
legal delivery components.
It is remembered as a
transformative legal delivery company as well as «the next big thing» that failed to achieve its potential disruptive impact.
Mark Cohen, the founder
of legal delivery consultancy, Legal Mosaic, has said that a tectonic shift in the global legal sector is driving a need for collaboration between law firms and other types of business, often in search of legal tech solutions.
The only thing the Uber model has in common with the old taxi cab model is that it moves people from point A to point B. Maybe its time for a
new legal delivery model entirely.
@legalmosaic Mark A Cohen — Legal Education
Legal Delivery System Future of Law Legal Supply Chain Strategy Consultant in Legal Industry
The partnership with Elevate and their Elevated Lawyers service will form part of Hogan Lovells legal service delivery offering that the firm brings to clients alongside: core legal teams;
Legal Delivery Centre (s); Johannesburg; Legal Project Management; Artificial Intelligence; general LawTech and legal function consultancy.
The well - defined, material focus of the GLH evidences a maturation of the legal tech community; it does not advance technology as an end unto itself but as a vehicle for forging a scaled global effort to solve law's «wicked problems» and to improve
legal delivery for all.
This is not about an erosion of professional standards as some speciously suggest; it is about utilizing technology to
advance legal delivery.
The delivery of legal services is a play with many actors... The days of law firms having a stranglehold
over legal delivery have given way to the rise of in - house...
Could highly selective, well - branded, and technologically integrated networks with well - funded centralized management become the preferred
legal delivery structure in the coming years by offering more client - centric, efficient ways to procure legal services than mega-firms or the Big Four?
Technologists, lawyers, process experts, and other professionals and paraprofessionals collaborate to create new tools that make
legal delivery more accessible, affordable, and responsive to customer need.
I love being part of the executive committee; having exposure to those with different expertise, learning about best practice in the way other parts of the company work, and using that knowledge to
enhance legal delivery to the business.
Legal providers — and that includes in - house legal teams — would be wise to consider an inter-generational leadership model if for no other reason than
legal delivery now involves legal expertise as well as IT and process expertise.
But the
incumbent legal delivery model — excepting a handful of differentiated firms performing truly «bespoke» matters --- is experiencing an existential crisis.
The billable hour is fast being replaced by alternate methods of pricing legal services as clients seek certainty in the cost of their legal matters and are finding
competing legal delivery services that will give them just that.
The move to digitization and new delivery models that provide consumers greater accessibility, choice, transparency, and value is beginning to
transform legal delivery.
This will better serve clients even if there might sometimes be a harsh economic impact on mid-career attorneys caught between two
different legal delivery models.
Common challenges include: legal education reform and preparing lawyers for a future that is already here; solving access to justice; defending the rule of law; creating appropriate guidelines for social media, ensuring that its role in the court of public opinion does not marginalize the legal system; and narrowing the delta between
current legal delivery methods and customer needs and expectations.
Technology is certainly
reshaping legal delivery — transforming law from a labor - intensive service industry to an increasingly automated, product driven, one where legal «practice» is shrinking and the business of law is expanding.
The ACC members expressed frustration with their law firm providers and were remarkably receptive to the thesis that legal practice — differentiated legal expertise, skills, and judgment — is shrinking
while legal delivery — the business of law — is expanding.
Clifford Chance, one of the largest law firms in the world, retains Integreon to build its Gurgaon - based
offshore legal delivery center.
Legal practice is shrinking
as legal delivery is entering the digital era where routinization; automation; products in lieu of services; gradations of legal «touch - points»; and lawyers equipped with new skills to augment «knowing the law» become normative.
Legal chatbots, artificial intelligence (AI); data analytics; predictive tools; collaboration between / among lawyers and other professionals, paraprofessionals, and machines will also be elements
of legal delivery.
They are a powerful resource that legal departments should consider when they distinguish between legal practice and
legal delivery functions.