Following Legal Week’s Strategic Technology Forum, 3Kites’ Melanie Farquharson and Paul Longhurst give feedback on the changes needed for the sector to move forward, and which parties need to make them

This year’s Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum addressed the themes of the current business environment, business efficiency and profitability and business strategy. In many ways the issues discussed were not new – conferences have been discussing whether the legal market is changing for many years and the end of the billable hour was predicted a decade ago, yet there is still much debate about how firms need to adapt to deal with alternative fee arrangements.