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Getting Smarter at Core Legal Work

Getting Smarter at Core Legal Work. Marc Lauritsen College of Law Practice Management October 2010. Session Overview. Today’s disruptive innovations The competitive squeeze Core lawyering activities and artifacts Humans and machines Transformative technologies on three fronts

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Getting Smarter at Core Legal Work

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  1. Getting SmarteratCore Legal Work Marc Lauritsen College of Law Practice Management October 2010

  2. Session Overview • Today’s disruptive innovations • The competitive squeeze • Core lawyering activities and artifacts • Humans and machines • Transformative technologies on three fronts • Document drafting • Decision support • Dispute resolution / Deal making

  3. Susskind’s Ten Disruptive Technologies • Document assembly • Relentless connectivity • Electronic legal marketplace • E-learning • Online legal guidance • Legal open-sourcing • Closed legal communities • Workflow and project management • Embedded legal knowledge • Online dispute resolution

  4. Technologies with legal substance • Document assembly • Relentless connectivity • Electronic legal marketplace • E-learning • Online legal guidance • Legal open-sourcing • Closed legal communities • Workflow and project management • Embedded legal knowledge • Online dispute resolution

  5. Venture funded providers Accountants The Squeeze Off shore lawyers Legal process outsourcers Corporate insourcing Form sites Regulatory push back Law ‘factories’ Self help systems Virtual law firms Doc prep services PayingWork Distinctive lawyering values Values beyond effectiveness Generic process optimization Substantive systems

  6. Legal Aid Assistance Generic process optimization Substantive systems

  7. Work

  8. WMW WHW

  9. WM(actual)WM(possible)

  10. “Legal expert systems are so totally dreamy!”

  11. Document Drafting and Analysis

  12. Online forms Document preparation services

  13. Online automated forms

  14. Online services with lawyers in the loop

  15. Decision Making

  16. Choiceboxing

  17. TIG 2010

  18. Deals and Dispute Resolution

  19. http://www.fairoutcomes.com

  20. Recap • Specialized knowledge tools offer some of the most dramatic opportunities to work smarter • They resonate with the distinctive forms of legal knowledge and work • Those tools can also empower people to do some legal work themselves • When legal work can be done smarter, someone will do it smarter

  21. Venture funded megaliths Accountants The Squeeze Off shore lawyers Legal process outsourcers Corporate insourcing Form sites Regulatory push back Law ‘factories’ Self help systems Virtual law firms Doc prep services PayingWork Distinctive lawyering values Values beyond effectiveness Generic process optimization Substantive systems

  22. http://www.mylawyer.com/MyLawyer%20vs.%20LegalZoom.asp

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