“The legal profession is facing a period of unprecedented upheaval that will see clients push through radical changes at service providers and usher in new technology to hugely improve efficiency…”

Actually, I don’t believe a word of that sentence, but you won’t struggle to find such pronouncements made about the legal profession. In fact, you wouldn’t have struggled at any time during the last 10 years, but a banking crisis, a deep recession and a wave of law firm restructurings gave a bit more weight to such predictions.