Law Firms of the Future Will Be Different in Three Critical Ways | Bloomberg Law

The law firm of the future is already here. We just don’t recognize it.

What does the law firm of the future look like? To answer this question, we must first decide what future we are talking about. The near future?

Or perhaps the science-fiction future—the one more likely to be entertaining than accurate. After all, we still don’t have hoverboards from Back to the Future’s version of 2015 or Soylent Green’s (spoiler alert) human food of 2022.

Let’s focus on the foreseeable future—the one being shaped by forces we can see today.

Here are three critical ways the law firm of the future will be different.

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