Talk of disruptive innovation, alternative law firm business models, and the future of the legal profession filled the venerable, 131-year-old halls of Harvard Law School’s Austin Hall yesterday, as the school’s Program on the Legal Profession hosted a conference on disruptive innovation in the market for legal services.
The program featured industry leaders—including William Hubbard, incoming American Bar Association president; Richard Susskind, the legal futurist; Chris Kenny, chief executive of the UK Legal Services Board; and Thomas Sager, general counsel of DuPont—alongside little-known startups such as CaseText, a crowdsourced legal research platform; DealStage, a cloud platform for managing complex transactions; and LearnLeo, a company working to change legal education through technology.
