Their needs for work flexibility and teamwork, technological competency, strong communication skills and sense of global responsibility, will help create the new
models of legal service delivery and transformative innovation.
They divided attendees into 10 breakout groups and directed them to come up with ideas for an innovative new product or service to improve the effectiveness of some
aspect of legal services delivery.
For the most part, these are changes that have been imposed upon them from without — from more demanding clients and more competitive newcomers who are challenging the
rules of legal service delivery.
Mitchell Kowalski is the Gowling WLG Visiting Professor in Legal Innovation at the University of Calgary Law School, the Legal Innovation Columnist at The National Post, and Principal Consultant at Cross Pollen Advisory where he advises in - house legal departments and law firms on the
redesign of legal service delivery.
Saloojee says the Ryerson law school would capture some of that market and will better position those graduates to be an important part
of the legal service delivery in Ontario.
Interviews explored various areas including the changing relationships with law firms; the extent to which work has become disaggregated; and how multi-sourcing (i.e. the use of multiple
sources of legal service delivery, including outsourcing... [more]
«Today's management professionals are bringing some well - honed skills and experience gained from outside the legal sector with them, particularly from the outsourcing industry, where margins tend to be thin,» says David Thomas,
head of legal service delivery at BLP.
Similar to Alaska, Hawaii, with one large urban center in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu, and the rest of the population spread among the other seven islands, experiences geographic and infrastructure challenges to traditional
modes of legal services delivery.
Law Firm Failure — the good kind Though they are easy to label as Luddites, some law firms are experimenting with technology and alternative
means of legal service delivery.
The litigation support professional (also called an e-discovery professional) is a hybrid paralegal / technology role that has evolved immensely in the past ten years as technology has become an integral
part of legal service delivery.
Their bold move has received both kudos and slings and arrows from members of the legal profession, but they are putting their money where their mouths are in terms of
innovation of legal service delivery and access to justice.
«The advent of AI means that technology teams will effectively become another
pillar of legal service delivery in the practice, and computer scientists will find themselves working alongside lawyers and partners on actual transactions and disputes.
Rather, it is my view that one of the reasons that lawyers have not adapted to better and more efficient
styles of legal service delivery is because by using these new styles, they... [more]
Whether it has been the launch of entirely new law firms based on a different
kind of legal service delivery model, low - cost service / delivery centres, new technology - enabled offerings, contract lawyer businesses, consulting subsidiary services, or rapid internationalisation, law firms have changed massively.
(ABSs are just another type of regulatory liberalization that permits new players to participate in the
business of legal services delivery, and is, therefore, no different than programs like the LLLT program.)
«As the 15th judge advocate general, my
vision of legal service delivery is one that will be very much driven and focused on my institutional clients» needs,» says Bernatchez, whose role involves advising military decision - makers, such as the minister of National Defence, on legal actions touching on military law.
Increasingly, we work with the notion that the IT team delivers a robust
suite of legal service delivery applications that are intuitive and configurable by the non-IT specialists in my team.
Allowing ourselves to opt into or out of the responsibility to stay fully informed on the content of the law and best
practices of legal services delivery suits our convenience just fine, but does nothing for the interests of clients or community.
Several U.S. sates, as well as the American Bar Association (through its new Commission on the
Future of Legal Service Delivery) are considering many of the issues highlighted above; I can't help but think that this report could be cited as persuasive authority by those who favour (as I do) the liberalization of legal market regulation and legal service delivery.
Starting from a historical context for the current
state of legal services delivery, this course introduces human centered design thinking and other proven creative problem - solving constructs to provide a client - centered focus for creating innovative and effective methods of delivering legal services to a wide range of consumers in the 21st century.
Much of legal service delivery — turning legal insight into concrete deliverables — now entails a technology component that combines infrastructure with user input.
From there, we'll engage in a series of readings that introduce the tools of Human - Centered Design Thinking, providing case studies and concrete examples of how these tools can serve to solve a
myriad of legal services delivery challenges.