I think I started 2019 and probably the two or three years before with a similar aim for the blog, a new year resolution to try and get into a regular cadence again. It was easier in the early days of this blog (11 years ago, eleven!!) as it seemed that there was plenty to discuss in Legal and IT.

So it’s 2020, new decade and I’m giving it another stab. It will still be a legal tech blog but I suspect it will fall into general tech much more, basically because as an industry we are having many of the same challenges technology wise as many other firms nowadays. We can do (or are doing) much more with standard technology than in the past. 

I’m going to start at a steady pace and that includes this post. Today is just pointing out a couple of articles I’ve read recently. And the second is simply a response to the first.

The main post is from Thomson Reuters – “2020 Report on the State of the Legal Market”, sorry it’s behind a “pass us your details” page but it is free to download.  

The second, as mentioned a comment on the above can be found here : https://prismlegal.com/law-firms-disrupted-disputing-the-tr-view/ 

My message is not “act now or dissolve within X years.” What I can say and what seems reasonable is “now is the time to act and remember, it’s more fun to be the acquiring firm than the one that’s acquired”. Perhaps that will motivate some more incremental change. 

I liked this final conclusion, it feels less pessimistic somehow and more in tune with reality and yet it is still advocating the same need to bring about change.