IT : The Next 10 Years
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Information Technology is inseparable from strategy, so a posting on Richard Susskind's lecture to The Society for Computers and Law this past Monday does not stray beyond the ambit of this blog's chosen subject matter. In his address, Susskind addressed the likely changes that will be enabled in law firms through emerging technologies over the next decade.
"By and large, most lawyers have now got their BlackBerry machines, they Google regularly, and they think they are on their way - the transformation has occurred. And my argument is that it is the plumbing," he said. "The plumbing is in place, the infrastructure is in place, and the really exciting stuff that will go to the heart of legal services, the heart of legal process, is coming in the next decade."
Susskind says that the primary areas of transformation will be:
- The nature of legal services
- The way that lawyers work
- The relationships between lawyers and their clients
- Legal training and learning, and
- Dispute Resolution
That doesn't leave too many areas of your typical firm's business unscathed, I'd guess, nor is the tsunami likely to be restricted to law firms. The implications for not only the content but also the process of professional service firm strategy over the next few years are, quite simply, mind boggling!
A webcast of Susskind's address can be streamed or alternatively a podcast downloaded from here.
Thanks to Legal IT, whose article here alerted me to this.
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