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The Future Of The Legal Profession and ADR Providers

Frederic S. Ury Ury & Moskow, LLC Fairfield, Connecticut . The Future Of The Legal Profession and ADR Providers. Introduction. Change in every industry is occurring faster than ever before. Not just change but disruptive change. Lawyers are not exempt. .

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The Future Of The Legal Profession and ADR Providers

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  1. Frederic S. Ury Ury & Moskow, LLC Fairfield, Connecticut The Future Of The Legal Profession and ADR Providers

  2. Introduction • Change in every industry is occurring faster than ever before. • Not just change but disruptive change. • Lawyers are not exempt. .

  3. Disruptive change: It’s all about delivery • Legal and ADR services are not going to disappear. They will be delivered differently. • Mail: Pony Express-email- text- • Music, news, books, consumer products, and consumer services. • Border’s Books and Blockbuster. • Television, Cable and Net-flicks.

  4. What a difference 10 years makes • 1,123,000 law office jobs 2004. • 100,000 prospective students. • 54,000 fewer jobs since 2004. • Law school applications are down 50%

  5. Four Trends affecting the legal profession. • Globalization/regulation • Technology • Nature of clients • Demographics

  6. Globalization • Over one million lawyers in India are willing to work for $25.00-50.00 per hour. • Outsourcing overseas and insourcing in the US. • Ethics 20/20 changes concerning supervision. • We are a net exporter of legal services by billions.

  7. Manthan legal services

  8. Pangea3 legal outsourcing

  9. Pangea3 and other outsourcing • Bought by Thomson Reuters. • In 2011 opened a 400 seat office in Texas. • Outsourcing is returning to the US because of a glut of newly minted attorneys who would rather work for $50,000 than not work at all.

  10. Integreon—Fargo, North Dakota

  11. UnitedLex—Kansas

  12. Law firm ownership outside the United States • Australia --publicly traded law firms. • The UK --Legal Services Act, ABS, Multi- Disciplinary Practices & passive non-lawyer investment. • Legal disciplinary practices may have up to 25% non-lawyer owners or managers. • Borderless practice in Europe, Australia & Canada. • Ontario licenses and regulates paralegals.

  13. Slater & Gordon

  14. Stanley Lam paralegal

  15. Law firm ownership in the US • Same model for over 200 years. • Jacoby Meyers law suit. • MDP in District of Columbia. • Licensing Paralegals in the State of Washington. • Change is slowly happening. • Ethics 20/20—the art of the possible.

  16. Axiom

  17. Reinvent law laboratory

  18. Technology • Nothing has impacted the law like technology. 24/7 accessibility. • Small firms can compete with large firms for large transactions or complex litigation. • Law firms have the same law library • Clients have the same access.

  19. Who can I sue?

  20. Tracking law sites on the web

  21. Nolo’s list of legal websites

  22. Virtual law firms and cloud computing • E-law firms, +outsourcing + co-sourcing =network of law firms. • UPL and regulatory considerations. • Cloud computing and confidentiality. • Grads who cannot find work are opening virtual law firms without mentoring. • Ethics 20/20 technology rules.

  23. MD family lawyer

  24. The virtual law firm

  25. Direct law

  26. elawyering blog

  27. Why pay for something you can get on the internet for free? • The internet is the primary source for information. Webmd and legal sites. • This generation has grown up using the internet to research, study, shop, socialize, and play. • Music, newspapers, and books. • Knowledge is available for free. • These sites are owned by non-lawyers.

  28. Freelance law firm

  29. Documents for free: Docracy

  30. CT network for free legal aid

  31. Free advice

  32. Free legal forms

  33. Free legal aid

  34. Free legal advice: Lawguru

  35. Avvo

  36. Free up load site: JDSupra

  37. Free legal aid referrals

  38. Legalzoom wills

  39. Rocket lawyer

  40. EZLaw

  41. Search and artificial intelligence will change access to justice • Technologythat is a disruptive change. • True access to justice will occur when the ability of computers to search combined with artificial intelligence allows anyone to answer complex legal problems quickly and easily.

  42. Google scholar

  43. LawHelp interactive resource

  44. Neota Logic

  45. Koncision

  46. Social networking: Legal onRamp

  47. LawPivot—crowdsourced advice

  48. LegalPlayground

  49. Fired over tweet

  50. Resigns over text messages

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