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Breaking Tradition: How New Law is Challenging Big Law

As clients adapt the way they source and purchase legal services, competition and collaboration among new and traditional providers is increasing. In the decade since the Great Recession, when alternative options really came onto the scene with the promise of offering a better way, the numbers and types of providers have exploded. Over the next year, we aim to bring clarity around who those alternative providers are, what they are offering, who they are representing, where they get their talent and what piece of the market they have and could attain. You\'ll meet the players, hear from clients, see examples of collaboration, learn the offerings and gain clarity into this rapidly growing segment of the legal services market.

Analysis

Utah Broke the Lawyer Fee-Sharing Mold. Now Other States Watch With Interest

All eyes were on Utah when it allowed nonlawyers to perform more legal services and share fees with lawyers for the first time in the U.S. Now states will closely watch how Utah lawyers' revenue and consumer complaints fare in the new "sandbox."

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Scott M. Matheson Courthouse, home of the Utah Supreme Court. Credit: Wikipedia. Scott M. Matheson Courthouse, home of the Utah Supreme Court. Credit: Wikipedia.

When the Utah Supreme Court gave its approval to implement a two-year pilot “regulatory sandbox” program on Aug. 14, which allows applicants to seek approval to experiment with new legal business models and approaches, many proponents of lawyer regulatory reform breathed a sigh of relief.

“If they had not passed it, it would have caused us to think, ‘Wow, what happened there,’” said Arizona Supreme Court Vice Chief Justice Ann Scott Timmer, who chairs Arizona’s Delivery of Legal Services Task Force that seeks to allow nonlawyers to provide some lawyer services. “But the fact that they did pass it, it simply confirmed what we already knew.”

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