Don't Be 'Idiotic' -- Yes, Law Firms Really Have To Change

Change or perish.

The whole profession is changing rapidly, and to just drift along, make incremental changes and not have a dedication to innovation in some way seems idiotic to me. And the more vexing thing from a firm standpoint is the bigger-sized firms are doing more and doing it faster. But there isn’t anything they are doing that smaller sized firms couldn’t do, realistically. Mostly all of the innovations available in the way you serve clients are available to everyone.

–Thomas Clay, principal at Altman Weil and co-author of the recent Law Firms In Transition survey, told Law.com that more law firms need to commit to innovate and make changes to how they deliver client services. According to the survey, only about a third of firms were pursuing innovative solutions, with Biglaw firms much more likely to embrace change than their Small Law counterparts.

Sponsored