Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch in your inbox every Thursday? Sign up here.

The tech industry is built on the premise that the ways we’ve historically approached–well, pretty much everything–are ripe for improvement. A corollary to that observation is that law firms aiming to serve tech startups offer a valuable window into the future of the business.