Legal Mosaic Essays on Legal Delivery

<strong>Legal</strong> <strong>Mosaic</strong>: <strong>Essays</strong> on <strong>Legal</strong> Delivery
solidation of back-office operations and enhanced IT integration to this
struggling segment of the market. What does this portend? It suggests
that legal practices, like medical ones before them, will be rolled up,
streamlined, made more profitable, and, likely packaged for sale or
IPO. What’s clear is that at all segments of the market, moves are being
made to improve the efficiency of legal delivery and to scale it. In the
case of the retail segment, such scaling might be nationwide, but in the
corporate segment globalization is clearly the end game.
Conclusion
The UK legal market provides a view into law’s future. While ABS
structures, IPO’s, and rollups may be anathema to some legal purists,
they are clearly a part of today’s global legal landscape. Whether they
align the interests of the various stakeholders in the legal ecosystem
(law students/the Academy; legal providers; and legal consumers) and
provide better outcomes for each remains to be seen. But one thing is
certain: the UK is in the vanguard of innovation in legal delivery and
will likely serve as the headquarters from which that change will proliferate
around the globe.
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