Impediments To Legal Industry's 'Inevitable' Future: Part 2

By Craig Levinson (June 8, 2018, 6:08 PM EDT) -- In part one of this article series, I agreed with the legal pundits speculating that NewLaw's present and future disruptors (NewLaw firms, the Big Four and alternative legal service providers) will radically change the landscape of the legal services industry. This would likely come at the expense of BigLaw, a term signifying the traditional law firm model being used by incumbent law firms. My issue has never been with the "if"; it's always been with the "when." Given the resistance to change of in-house counsel and the relatively small amount of money budgeted for legal departments, this "inevitable" future may not come quite as rapidly as analysts have predicted....

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