Highlights from the Legal Geek conference
👉 We were lucky to attend the LegalGeek conference last week. Congratulations to the organisers for hosting a thoughtful event with a great crowd.
💡A few of our highlights:
1️⃣ We love hearing how people make things real.
The top talks were Jezah Khamisa, Kerry Westland and @Greg Baker, who shared their firm's approach to innovation. Smart people doing smart stuff; check them out!
2️⃣ The addiction to the billable hour is alive and kicking
Which is no bad thing. We all need to get paid. The innovation focused on those short-medium-term wins to improve processes and create speed and efficiency. With the industry making bold moves around automation, AI, and no/low-code solutions. It will be interesting to see how leadership's view on innovation's value shifts. What is the future law firm? How is value created long-term? Most technologies were bought or borrowed. New start-ups seem to be the law firm's future competitors.
3️⃣ Clients seem to be driving the change, i.e. questioning fees/value.
The industry is notoriously closed, raising the question: can the industry change from the inside out? Does the law need to be more open-source if it is to become people-centric? It would be interesting to get a wider stakeholder group into the mix.
4️⃣ The one thing missing was a wider debate on the future and vision.
How does the industry better serve people and respond to societal changes? How can the public and private sectors work together to 'make the system beautiful'?
5️⃣ Oh, and how could we forget? Joe Wicks was super inspirational. There's a lot we could all learn from fighter pilots. Thanks, 2nABLE