When a group of lawyers, and one economist, gathered in San Diego earlier this month for a conference called Leading Legal Innovation, much of the discussion focused on parallels between the legal profession and U.S. automakers, and the two industries’ shared resistance to innovation. If, as most at the conference believed, significant change in the legal market is inevitable, what will the new world of legal services look like?
As in the world at large, the influence of the Web will increase. “The power of the Web is immense,” says Harvey Anderson, the general counsel of Mozilla Corporation. “It will make available more information faster than you can imagine. If you’re putting yourself in a position where you’re betting against the Web, you will lose.” Is the legal profession doing that? “I think as a whole they are,” said Anderson. “But they don’t realize that’s what’s going on.”
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