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M
ost law firms have
significant internal
technolo resources,
but our collective
relationship to
technolo within legal has been tepid at best--
prior to COVID-19, of course.
Prior to now, we resisted change to how we
practice and serve our clients. We've gone mobile
and cloud only when necessary and have remained
steadfastly resistant about ten years longer than
nearly all other verticals. On a deep level, this has
been because of an entrenched culture regarding
the practice of law--that is that "law" differs from
matter to matter and client to client; that it occurs
in special "places"(much like law libraries of old)
and technolo doesn't really improve lawyers'
ability to articulate ideas and strategies that bring
their clients success.
Identifying the risks of how firms operate
has long been the quest of legal scholar Richard
Susskind who begins his most recent book, Online
Courts and the Future of Justice, "Is court a service or
a place? Do we really need to congregate physically
to resolve all our differences?"
Technolo and Law
Firm Resilience
by Christopher Zegers
