Comments on: Downturn in the legal market: temporary blip or end of an era? http://jimmilles.com/2009/05/21/downturn-in-the-legal-market-temporary-blip-or-end-of-an-era/ Law, social technologies, and more Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:40:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Neil Denny http://jimmilles.com/2009/05/21/downturn-in-the-legal-market-temporary-blip-or-end-of-an-era/#comment-11274 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:15:15 +0000 http://bwtr.wordpress.com/?p=414#comment-11274 I believe the supposition that things will revert to where they were is little more than self-deception.

The very real challenges being presented by the availabilty of much of the information that used to represent the advice sold by lawyers is going to have a massive impact.

The clients will be expecting new ways of working together with the legal professional and the other resources and providers that they now have available to them.

There will be opportunities for those who would be lawyers to innovate and operate within the emerging service provision sectors, but the straight, out and out lawyer will be fewer in number.

Quite how the legal education system deals with that I am not sure.

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