Earlier this week, Fish & Richardson announced the formation of its Legal Technology Solutions Group, developed to create client-facing solutions that can be deployed within the firm. While Fish & Richardson has long invested in sending members of its existing development team to programs and seminars focused on design, this new endeavor doesn’t mean it will to stop relying on the talent of outside designers any time soon.

“I think you need an outside designer for just sanity checks, and then also we need to be learning continuously. There’s people that are out there who are experts and we’ll never be able to approach what they’re doing,” said Beau Mersereau, leader of the firm’s Legal Technology Solutions Group.