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Law Practice,
Law Office Management

May 3, 2018

The new frontier of innovation: How will law firms fare?

When we begin to think about how to maintain a thriving legal practice that is being outpaced by artificial intelligence, automated on-line legal services, and lawyer “robots,” the first question that hits us is, where do we even begin? Below we suggest a roadmap for addressing what is arguably the biggest challenge the legal industry has faced in its history.

Linda Pfatteicher

Partner
Squire Patton Boggs

Email: linda.pfatteicher@squirepb.com

Linda is managing partner of the firm's San Francisco and Palo Alto offices and is a partner in the tax strategy and benefits group.

Stephen J. Goldstein

Global Director of Practice Support
Squire Patton Boggs

The new frontier of innovation: How will law firms fare?
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Lawyers by nature are conservative and resistant to change and, as such, lawyers and innovation are two things that do not easily meld together. And, yet, here we sit surrounded by disruptive technology, particularly in Silicon Valley.

Companies here haven't just changed the status quo in their industries, they have rapidly transformed the very way in which we communicate, travel, and shop. Naturally, similar changes are beginning t...

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