{"id":1056,"date":"2014-06-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.findingsimple.com\/au\/resources\/resource\/future-law-digital-law-firm-revolution\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T12:34:02","slug":"future-law-digital-law-firm-revolution","status":"publish","type":"insight_resource","link":"https:\/\/insight.thomsonreuters.com.au\/legal\/resources\/resource\/future-law-digital-law-firm-revolution","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Law: Digital Law Firm Revolution [Whitepaper]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro-paragraph\">Technology in the legal industry has been an <a href=\"http:\/\/insight.thomsonreuters.com.au\/future-law-firms-virtual-law-firms-legal-outsourcing-battle-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increasing topic of discussion on Legal Insight this year<\/a>. While forcing dramatic change, the digital law firm revolution is enabling firms to manage ongoing industry disruption. There is a strong indication that early uptake of technology in law firms will be the key to small firms securing a competitive hold on the future.<\/p>\n<p>So what will a digital law firm look like in 30 years \u2013 both from the outside, as players in a transformed market, and on the inside, as innovative work environments? Will small firms survive? And what can they do to prepare themselves for the future of law? Will we inevitably see lawyers recognise that it will be commonplace for the future consumer to use online tools to manage their general legal needs?<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Table of contents:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technology in the law<\/li>\n<li>A consumer focused legal practice<\/li>\n<li>Super-specialisation<\/li>\n<li>The vanishing legal library<\/li>\n<li>Legal work-life balance<\/li>\n<li>The virtual law firm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download our latest White Paper discussing the future of law in Australia. We take an indepth look at how the legal profession could change over the course of the next 30 years and the digital law firm will become commonplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1059,"template":"","categories":[645,602,609],"tags":[243,341,484,488,489,535],"resource_type":[638],"insight_job_role":[604,614,628],"insight_practice_area":[],"class_list":["entry","author-legaladmin","has-excerpt","post-1056","insight_resource","type-insight_resource","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","category-innovation-and-disruption-in-law","category-innovation-and-technology","category-legal-technology","tag-flexible-working","tag-legal-libraries","tag-small-law-firms","tag-sole-practitioners","tag-specialisation","tag-virtual-law-firms","resource_type-whitepaper","insight_job_role-knowledge-manager","insight_job_role-partner","insight_job_role-solicitor","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Future of Law: Digital Law Firm Revolution (Whitepaper)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This whitepaper examines the latest digital law firm developments, from online legal research to practice management, and virtual law firms and libraries.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/insight.thomsonreuters.com.au\/legal\/resources\/resource\/future-law-digital-law-firm-revolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future of Law: Digital Law Firm Revolution (Whitepaper)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This whitepaper examines the latest digital law firm developments, from online legal research to practice management, and virtual law firms and libraries.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/insight.thomsonreuters.com.au\/legal\/resources\/resource\/future-law-digital-law-firm-revolution\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TR - 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