{"id":940,"date":"2013-09-29T02:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/amy\/?p=940"},"modified":"2013-09-29T02:12:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T06:12:12","slug":"technology-disruption-takes-hold-on-big-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/2013\/09\/29\/technology-disruption-takes-hold-on-big-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Disruption Takes Hold on Big Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t pretend to be any type of analyst on the legal industry, but I do recognize an important article when I see one. Anyone working in legal services should find reading Who’s eating law firms’ lunch?<\/a> by Rachel Zahorsky and William D. Henderson for the ABA Journal<\/a> <\/em>of great interest. It’s the bits-to-bytes paradigm shifting story of how technology is reshaping complex litigation and transaction practices.<\/p>\n

In the article Kevin Colangelo, a former NYC attorney now with a legal process outsourcer called Pengea3, offers a quote that sums up what’s up…<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of the lawyers in my area of practice [outsourcing and technology transactions] observed the same relentless pattern of businesses gaining enormous efficiencies through technology and globalization; albeit the collateral effects were often massive employment dislocation. Once you thought about it, there was no principled reason why this pattern was going to exempt BigLaw.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read it here: Lunch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t pretend to be any type of analyst on the legal industry, but I do recognize an important article when I see one. Anyone working in legal services should find reading Who’s eating law firms’ lunch? by Rachel Zahorsky …<\/p>\n

Technology Disruption Takes Hold on Big Law<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,2185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-firm-marketing","category-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/amy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}