A Sustainable Profession
The legal profession is facing ongoing disruption in the market for legal services – from automation, globalisation, the commoditisation of legal services, the softening of the boundaries of legal work, the different expectations of Gen Y and Millennials, and changed client needs.
Creating a sustainable profession involves providing a future vision to young lawyers, assisting the significant number of baby-boomer lawyers with succession planning, addressing the softening of legal work boundaries, and ensuring that regulation otherwise supports a sustainable profession.
Regulations must accommodate this disruption with a considered and careful approach, accommodating the changing the work of lawyers , the challenges of innovation, the new ways of service delivery whilst ensuring proper protection of users of legal services. A primary objective must be increasing access to justice, which in large part is achieved through a sustainable profession.
Here is a paper prepared as part my keynote presentations for the 2017 LPLC Risk Management Intensives.