{"id":25213,"date":"2022-09-27T17:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T21:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/?p=900655"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:29:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T21:29:38","slug":"the-big-4-are-coming-but-maybe-not-for-the-law-firms-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/legal-innovation-center\/2022\/09\/27\/the-big-4-are-coming-but-maybe-not-for-the-law-firms-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big 4 Are Coming, But Maybe Not For The Law Firms&#8230; Yet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-647696\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2020\/03\/accounting-761599_640-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"accounting-761599_640\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: larger\"><strong>It may well be that rather than worrying about them becoming big law firms, we should be much more worried about them becoming big providers of the services we buy. I believe they will have the biggest impact on legal technology providers and providers of services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: larger\"><strong><em>&#8212; Dentons Global Chair Joe Andrew explaining to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2022\/09\/21\/what-happens-to-law-firms-when-ey-ditches-its-troubled-audit-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Lawyer<\/a> that EY&#8217;s decision to ditch its audit business will have a significant impact on the legal sector, but probably not the one that <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2018\/02\/twilight-of-the-law-firms-the-big-4-are-poised-to-conquer-the-legal-landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we&#8217;ve long predicted<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">Accounting firms might enter the legal sector through a different door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":647696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[2745,3517,102,321,7],"class_list":["post-25213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biglaw","tag-accounting","tag-big-4","tag-biglaw","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Big 4 Are Coming, But Maybe Not For The Law Firms... 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