The Modern Law Firm: How to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Technological Change, reviewed

By Simon Cocking, review of The Modern Law Firm: How to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Technological Change, by Heinan Landa, founder of Optimal Networks. Available from Amazon here.

Over the past three decades, the legal industry has been turned upside down. Increasingly rapid advances in technology have radically changed everything about the way law firms operate—from attracting and retaining clients, to researching relevant case law, collaborating with colleagues, and filing documents. With competition coming not just from other traditional law firms but also from online legal services, it’s more important than ever to differentiate your firm in a crowded marketplace. Yet the majority of firms continue down the path of “business as usual” despite the whirlwind of change roaring outside their windows.

The Modern Law Firm: How to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Technological Change, reviewed

A smart book, written at a good time. While, up till now, a highly paid job, the whole legal industry is surely one that is ripe for AI driven innovation. Perhaps it won’t reduce all the humans, but all those billable hours, which involved humans inefficiently searching through large reams of files, cuttings and dusty law books for relevant cases – surely this can be done better. In the same way that IBM’s Watson is revolutionising the medical industry the same will happen for the legal sector too.

Heinan Landa writes from the best perspective, one who has worked in the legal sector for multiple decades. Consequently he articulates well all the aspects that have been done poorly up until now, and therefore the pain points that can only be done better and more efficiently than what was done before. In his own firm he has also aimed to implement change, changes and drive adoption of new systems. In order to achieve the adoption of Slack, they simply turned off the previously used messaging systems. You can imagine the kicking, screaming and protests, but it is often the most effective way to ensure the new option is used by all.

In this way Landa takes you through various options and ideas to consider as you aim to either modernise your lawfirm or be rendered irrelevant by those who have done so.

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