33. Is Your Law Firm Ready for Innovation?
Innovation Series, Part 3 To adopt a meaningful innovation, which elevates client service, a law firm must be more than willing, they also have to be ready. Culturally, structurally and institutionally.
September 25, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Lean Adviser
"Come senators, congressman please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway, don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt, will be he who has stalled." — "The Times They Are A-Changin'" — Bob Dylan
Welcome along to the final part of our mini-series on innovation. We started by identifying what innovation is and is not. Then, last week, we got into the importance of implementation, and how to get around some of the challenges.
This discussion is of critical importance to the modernization of the profession. The demand from clients is well established. You'd need many decades under your belt to remember a time when clients weren't interested in law firms improving their methods, and becoming more effective and efficient. Law firms share the enthusiasm for modernization. They hear their clients, and they see their competitors vying for attention by investing in client-facing innovations. But many firms find their transformation is hobbled and slow. Not for want of intent, but because there are barriers.
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