Link: Tech GC Reflections on Big Law. I was led to this post by Chuck Newton (a rider of the third wave) and it suggests what many of us have been writing about for quite some time now: "The Times They are A Changin." There is no way that the legal industry (read Big Law) is going to escape the drive for efficiencies that "globalization" and enabling technologies are mandating.
Cisco's General Counsel sounds a similar note here. The message is quite clear, especially if you hope to do business with tech firms, improve both your efficiency and your effectiveness or you will not be doing business with us. Given who they work for, these GC's are likely to be influential in organizations such as the ACC.
The alarms are being sounded and the word will spread, when the levee breaks there will be no place to run. Having said all that, Big Law will NOT disappear anytime soon, it is more like to be a "death of 1000 cuts" unless of course "they" manage to turn the ship around at sea--a difficult proposition but not impossible.
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