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.
But yesterday, the
company took the unprecedented step of inviting a group of
tech and auto journalists for a behind - the - scenes look
at how the Google spinoff would achieve the tall
task of deploying fully driverless cars.