When law firms launch non-legal contracts for technologists to works alongside lawyers in delivering services to clients you know digital transformation is happening.
Could STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) graduates achieve equal status with legal graduates? That would be an indicator of real change to a digital practice.
One idea she introduced was the concept of “product owners”. Although this role is common in software companies, it is relatively new for the legal profession. Essentially, the role at Freshfields is for a technologist to work alongside the lawyer associate in an agile development team — one more likely to have short cycles of development and cross-functional working — on initiatives for clients. Both lawyer and technologist have responsibility for the project. The result has been to shorten the time in which the firm can develop and deliver new tools. For example, its Antitrust 101 app was ready for a client within weeks.
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