Laweyers: Change Your Culture To Survive The Future

It's clear that law firms, writes Patrick Lamb in The Law Firm of the Future, must adapt their business model if they are to survive in the face of evolving client demands. More importantly, though, they must change their culture:

The hardest part of this evolutionary stage is not figuring out a workable structure.  It is figuring out a workable culture. ... Getting people used to being at the top of their personal silo to instead be a piece of an enterprise is a challenge no law firm I know has accomplished effectively.

Read the post. Ask yourself what the future of your firm will be. Then start making it happen.

Clear Writing Is Clearly Better

Good writing matters, writes Patrick Lamb in Clear writing makes a difference. The easier your written work is to read, the better people are going to understand it. And the better they understand it, the more they’ll be convinced:

“Using 50 readability measures, the study’s authors found that by a huge amount, a more readable, easy to understand brief is more likely to prevail over a less readable brief.”

Read the post. Follow Lamb’s advice on how to make your writing more clear. Your readers will thank you.

The future of law? Different.

Patrick Lamb's "What Does the Future of Law Hold? Three Predictions" from his The New Normal column at the ABA Journal Online. For the first time in three years, I wasn't able to attend Georgetown University Law Center’s Future of Law Conference. Fortunately, Lamb was (as were others whose posts we will be featuring this week). This post contains Lamb's takeaways from the sessions, three changes in the legal profession that he sees happening in the relatively near future. They're not particularly revolutionary, at least not at the start, but as they take hold, they could certainly help revolutionize the way law is practiced, the way clients obtain legal services, the nature of those services and the value the that clients receive. Sound over the top? Maybe. Read the post (and comments) and decide for yourself.