Although in the U.S. growing national businesses such as LegalZoom provide a variety of legal services outside the
traditional law firm legal service delivery model that is constrained by the
rule of professional conduct banning non-lawyer
ownership, no jurisdiction in the U.S. has a non-lawyer
ownership ABS model like the UK's.
«Changing fee structures, increased competition, changes to
ownership rules and the introduction of new technologies are providing challenges and disruption to
traditional forms of practice.»