Not exact matches
Some people in
tech think visibly dressing up is a sign of incompetence (too
much time spent on frivolous pursuits) while to other professionals (eg
lawyers) it shows you know the rules.
The conversations happening at Legalweek18 around AI were
much more positive (and, dare I say, realistic), focusing instead on ways that AI
tech can help supplement the efforts of
lawyers to make them more effective (i.e., the whole «
lawyers plus machines,» not «
lawyers v. machines» schtick).
In short, the changing legal landscape available to
tech companies is being driven very
much by technology, and it's been great not just for entrepreneurs, but also for
lawyers looking for alternative platforms to work from.
The perpetrator was a sophisticated,
tech - savvy and unscrupulous sort, based abroad, and while my
lawyer friend pursued the matter through appropriate legal channels, getting the offending material removed from major search engines was a cumbersome, lengthy and expensive process, during which time anyone searching my friend's name online was bombarded with an array of falsified documents, quotes and images intended to inflict as
much reputational damage as possible.
But I agree with Polt, contingency fee
lawyers are a big market that more closely aligns with
much of what legal
tech is designed to achieve.
So when Mayer says he's never heard so many
lawyers talk so
much sense about
tech and practice, he knows what he's talking about.
#cliocloud9 I have never heard so many
lawyers talk so
much sense about
tech and practice in a any conference ever.
Lawyers tend to ask too
much about whether a
tech tool will do «legal» things.
I often wonder though if the these people selling know as
much about their product and what it offers as the
lawyers,
tech and information / knowledge management people they are selling to.
Finally, Sara Kubik was most surprised by how
much of an impact legal
tech could have, especially following her efforts with @HelpTheLawyers supporting access to justice efforts by
lawyers» working pro bono on immigration cases in the U.S. earlier this year.
That structure is no longer sustainable because: (1)
much of the «leveraged» work is now performed outside law firms (disaggregated); (2) at the lower rungs, machines, paraprofessionals, and / or
lawyers operating in lower - cost structures and / or markets are now performing the work; (3) many «legal» tasks have been transformed from «services» to «products»; (4) law companies that are well - capitalized,
tech and process savvy, and with customer - centric models aligning provider to consumer economically and culturally have migrated up the complexity chain.
Lawyers who don't understand that the new rules require a
much greater understanding of the
tech world than «swipe right» have lost track of the game.