As industries by and large embrace waves of change spurred by technology, the legal profession, built upon hours of ardent research and laborious case crafting, is often considered resistant to the gadget-driven world. Yet amid a society increasingly defined by mobile devices, automated services and big data, clients are demanding legal services to be better, faster and cheaper.
Addressing these challenges was the focus of “Legal Innovation Summit,” a Sept. 23 panel at Grand Hyatt New York presented by business consultancy Invest Northern Ireland. Paramount among the difficulties facing law firms today, explained panelist Scott Kane, partner at Squire Patton Boggs, is efficiency.
