Legal Mosaic Essays on Legal Delivery

<strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Mosaic</strong>: <strong>Essays</strong> on <strong>Legal</strong> Delivery
modifications and basic legal research to cite but two examples—increasingly
become “productized”. That is already happening with regulatory
updates such as “50 state surveys” which are rapidly being sold
as a subscription product rather than as a service. <strong>Legal</strong> Zoom, Rocket
Lawyer, and other document providers will not replace lawyers entirely;
they will, however, severely limit the scope of what lawyers do.
In the end, lawyers, like doctors, will be left to do what they are trained
for--to exercise their independent professional judgment. New legal jobs
will emerge—such as process and project management as well as ITrelated
roles—and the meaning of what it means to be a lawyer will
continue to evolve. <strong>Legal</strong> educators must be sensitive to these changes
so they can provide law school graduates with the skills necessary to vie
for these new positions. But this will require an understanding of the
current legal landscape—often lacking in the legal academy—as well as
a willingness to change the law school curriculum. Recent action by the
ABA suggests that such change is no longer an elective course.
One thing is certain: we are moving from a cubist landscape to a postmodern
one where transparency, efficiency, predictability, collaboration,
and technology will dominate the foreground.
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