Tech
means junior lawyers get more higher end work now than before and it's that, not the grunt work, that makes you a good lawyer.»
Not exact matches
By implementing a framework that looks to the needs of internal stakeholders (read
lawyers, including
junior associates), law firms can create greater
meaning and significance to members of the profession.
That, however, simply
means that a
lawyer who is arguing the case, or the
junior, will do the research.
A good «open door» policy
means more than just being available — check in on
junior lawyers and ensure they are moving their files along.
That
means that
junior lawyers must go outside the firm to find clients and build their books of business.
And by that I
mean the end of large - scale leverage, i.e. the practice of using several
junior lawyers to every equity partner and through which some law firms have been able to become incredibly profitable.
(We see
junior lawyers with less than four years of experience claiming expertise in two or three fields, which typically
means that they have researched an issue or two in each, at most.)
For law firms which have built their profitability around hordes of
junior lawyers furiously billing, retooling their firms
means plotting the obsolescence of what now provides their sizeable incomes.
Does this
mean that
junior lawyers can not themselves be «incredibly busy»?
By «making many
junior lawyers obsolete» I
mean that a lot of tasks traditionally done by
junior lawyers will be replaced with computers.
After the acquisitions made by Deloitte (I believe Deloitte has Kira at their disposal), are
junior lawyers going to become obsolete to law firms because they'll be working for firm's like Deloitte or will they be completely and utterly obsolete
meaning they will no longer exist?
for the more
junior lawyers and gave more senior ones a
means to «train» for a bigger role.