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LEGAL SERVICES INNOVATION Richard Moorhead Director, Centre for Ethics and Law, Professor of Law and Professional Ethics [email protected]

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LEGAL SERVICES INNOVATION

Richard MoorheadDirector, Centre for Ethics and Law, Professor of Law and Professional

Ethics

[email protected]

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OVERVIEW

CELs and me

Is there a paradigm shift underway in law?

The UK case

You can’t systemise me?

Where this goes beyond efficiency/cost

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ISN’T INNOVATION…

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…THAT AWKWARD MOMENT

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CHANGING RELATIONSHIPSWINMARK LOOKING GLASS REPORTS

cost reduction;

changes in pricing models; and

the development of mutually beneficial relationships.

shifting work to lower cost resources;

improving value and predictability from external firms; and

using technology to increase availability of legal experts.

corporate procurement specialists

value-based and performance-based compensation.

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A PERMANENT REVOLUTION?

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IT’S THE RECESSION STUPID…

Or is it?

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THE PARADIGM SHIFTHENDERSON AND ZAHORSKY, ABA J, 2011

PP shrinkage is not just recessional

Market growth slower than historic levels and (even) less evenly distributed

Movement of jobs outside of PP and in-house

Associates' paths upward fade

Profits per partner and staff leverage problems.

Technology swallows billable hour

International competition hits (margins and market share?)

A more sophisticated corporate client with vast knowledge available at the click of a mouse.

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WHAT STARTS ON THE PERIPHERY….

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TYMETRIX…

Founded in Hartford in 1994

In 1995, developed task-based billing system.

1997 delivered online e-billing.

2000 automated compliance checks.

2001 online matter management solutions.

2002 ranked first in Deloitte & Touche’s Fast 50 in Connecticut and #72 in Deloitte’s Fast 500 Tech Companies in North America.

2003 acquired by the global information services company Wolters Kluwer. (€3.6bn, 18,500 employees)

Later TyMetrix opened its London office, the first outside North America. The first non-North American client was the global energy giant BP.

2004 an end-to-end enterprise legal management platform with e-billing, matter and case management, document management, budgeting and analysis, and reporting solutions.

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IT’S THE RECESSION, STUPID?

US Lawyer headcount peaked in?

2004

And what else happened?

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HENDERSON AND ZAHORSKY, 2011

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THE DECLINE OF PRIVATE PRACTICE?HENDERSON, 2012

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NOVUS LAW

operates 22 hours a day. electronic document review for large-scale litigation and corporate due

diligence for large businesses. delivery of “a virtually error-free work product on time and within

budget” “via intricate, metric-driven work process certified by Underwriters

Laboratories”. They do not practice law

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Since 2007, revenue-per-lawyer figures have been trending sideways or down for the majority of the Am Law 100. …a sharp break from historical patterns

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EXAMPLES OF LESS TEMPORARY SHIFTS

Some Fortune 500 companies have adopted the presumption that all legal work will be done in-house.

General Electric's legal department lawyers in India supervised by in-house lawyers in the U.S.

Cisco Systems a Web-based knowledge management system that captures email conversations, facilitates secure communication with

experts, and documents answers to frequently asked questions - all to boost in-house productivity and cut the law department's expenses.

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AND THE UK…?

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LB100 THE AGE OF TURBULENCE

Cobbetts, which went into administration in March, posted a profit per equity partner (PEP) increase of 16% in its last-ever LB100 appearance

Top 100 UK law firms revenue and profits up by 8% (£19.1bn and £5.8bn)

Headcount up by 10% to 61,299

RPL is down by 2% to £312,000

PPL, likewise, has fallen by 2% to £95,000.

PEP has dropped 4% to £622,000.

The losers– there isn’t the work, there’s too many lawyers

GCs – you have to change

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LB100 THE AGE OF TURBULENCE

Cobbetts, which went into administration in March, posted a profit per equity partner (PEP) increase of 16% in its last-ever LB100 appearance

Top 100 UK law firms revenue and profits up by 8% (£19.1bn and £5.8bn)

Headcount up by 10% to 61,299

RPL is down by 2% to £312,000

PPL, likewise, has fallen by 2% to £95,000.

PEP has dropped 4% to £622,000.

The losers– there isn’t the work, there’s too many lawyers

GCs – you have to change

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TURNOVER TRENDSLAW SOCIETY, 2013, FROM ONS DATA

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LB100 – 2004 TURNING POINT?

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LB100 – 2004 TURNING POINT?

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LB100 – 2004 TURNING POINT?

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THE RISE OF IN-HOUSE

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MORE BUSINESSES WITH IHLSAND BIGGER TEAMS

number of solicitor PC-holders employed in commerce and industry increased by 183% since 2000

the number of head offices of businesses employing PC holders increased 93% in the same period

(Law Society Annual Statistics Reports).

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IS INNOVATION HAPPENING?

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FIRM RESPONSES

Cost Management/Headcount

Response to metrics - Firms are making efforts to rationalise and consolidate systems to enable better management information

Firms are increasingly focussed on better matter management analysis and more rigorous pricing approaches

More interested in ABSs??

Diversification in influence? More Non-Exec, Non-L equity

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SUSSKIND’S FIVE STAGES

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LPOLACITY AND WILLCOCKS, “LEGAL PROCESS OUTSOURCING: LPO PROVIDER LANDSCAPE” (2012)

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LACITY AND WILLCOCKS PREDICT…

LPO providers will move up the value chain

New engagement models will emerge

The shape of enterprise legal functions will increasingly move from pyramids to diamond

Enterprise legal functions will reduce the number of law firm partners and increase bundled legal services

Significant M&A and strategic alliance activity will fuel provider growth and capabilities

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CHANGING NATURE OF RELATIONSHIPS

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SHINE ON YOU CRAZY…

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WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US?

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MICHAEL PORTER, 5 FORCES MODEL(2008) THE FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES THAT SHAPE STRATEGY, HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, JANUARY 2008.

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RIVERVIEW LAW: THE CASE FOR INSURGENCY…

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WHAT DO ESTABLISHED PLAYERS HAVE…?

Size

Experience

Personnel

Information

A merger strategy

A cost reduction strategy

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RIVERVIEW’S MODEL?

Fixed Fees

More flexible expertise model

Collaboration, information and insight

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YOU CAN’T SYSTEMISE ME…

Without making me miserable, or unemployed, or cheaper, or less effective

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THE JESUS MOMENTTHIS BOOK MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE

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MEDICAL FALLIBILITYGOROVITZ AND MACINTYRE

“Necessary fallibility”—things beyond our capacity.

Ignorance - we may err because science has given us only a partial understanding of the world and how it works.

Ineptitude - he knowledge exists, yet we fail to apply it correctly.

Complexity - science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

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AVIATORS

The test pilots made their list simple, brief, and to the point—short enough to fit on an index card, with step-by-step checks for takeoff, flight, landing, and taxiing. It had the kind of stuff that all pilots know to do. They check that the brakes are released, that the instruments are set, that the door and windows are closed, that the elevator controls are unlocked—dumb stuff. You wouldn’t think it would make that much difference. But with the checklist in hand, the pilots went on to fly the Model 299 a total of 1.8 million miles without one accident

Memory The tendency to skip under pressure A bridge to higher performance

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THIS MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE

Pre-line insertion checklist. Doctors must:(1) wash their hands with soap, (2) clean the patient’s skin with chlorhexidine antiseptic,

(3) put sterile drapes over the entire patient, (4) wear a mask, hat, sterile gown, and gloves, and (5) put a sterile dressing over the insertion site once the line is in. Check, check, check, check, check.

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TOO BASIC?

Nurses observed docters. 1 in 3.

Became compulsory for nurses to stop doctors

Ten-day line-infection: rate went from 11 percent to zero.

Saved 43 infections 8 deaths £2m

In one hospital

Went statewide: $175 million in costs and more than fifteen hundred lives saved

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YEAH, BUT…

You want people to make sure to get the stupid stuff right. Yet you also want to leave room for craft and judgment and the ability to respond to unexpected difficulties that arise along the way. The value of checklists for simple problems seems self-evident. But can they help avert failure when the problems combine everything from the simple to the complex?

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GEWANDE ON COMPLEX PROBLEMS

Submittal schedules and conflict lists (Building Projects)

Let the leader decide or make the teams talk?

Simple nudges towards communication: introductions and quick concerns/critical dangers (Surgery) “activation phenomenon” activate their sense of participation and

responsibility and their willingness to speak

Key steps 1 in 16 to 2 in 3 patients observed failure pre-acceptance of checklist

Outcomes -36% complications, -47% deaths: rich and poor hospitals, western and other Teamwork, democratisation, satisfaction: staff turnover dropped from 23 to

7%

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…STILL, ITS NOT LIKE LAW… IS IT LIKE VENTURE CAPITALISM…?

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COPING WITH COCAINE BRAIN

Mohnish Pabrai, Pabrai Investment Funds

Greed mode/cocaine brain/do the deal Logged his own and other errors (incl Buffet) Missed basics –e.g. over- understatement of profit/debt

Systemised key steps: better decisions?

Greater efficiency – quicker

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G. H. SMART“MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT METHODS IN VENTURE CAPITAL: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN CAPITAL VALUATION,” JOURNAL OF PRIVATE EQUITY 2, NO. 3 (1999): 29–45

“Sponges” gathering information about their targets

“Prosecutors” interrogated entrepreneurs aggressively, testing on hypothetical situations.

“Suitors” focused more on wooing people than on evaluating them.

“Terminators” bought the best ideas, fired entrepreneurs they found to be incompetent, and hired replacements.

“Airline Captains.”

Which ones produced the best return on investment? n=51

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SO ENOUGH OF INEPTITUDE,WHAT ABOUT IGNORANCE?

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HOW VERY DARE YOU…

Ignorance - we may err because science has given us only a partial understanding of the world and how it works.

Big DataIt can’t beat expert judgments can it?

The Washington Project

Behavioural Law?How do you measure value?

Do you know whether your contracts influence behaviour and allocate risk in optimal ways?

Compliance problemA process and a powerpoint?

EY Know Your Trader

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INNOVATION AS AN OPPORTUNITY?

Information

Reputation

Investment

Experimentation

Failure

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INNOVATION AS BEHAVIOURAL COACH

Supporting negotiations?

Don Philbin (Picture it Settled)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pt1c37jYYk

Driving efficiency in contract reviewSol Irvine (at Reinvent Law)

http://reinventlawchannel.com/sol-irvinedata-driven-contracts/

Or replacement: Online Dispute Resolution Colin Rule (at Reinvent Law)

http://reinventlawchannel.com/online-dispute-resolution/

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THE FINAL WORDINNOVATION AS COLLABORATION

General counsel should be careful, however, not to overplay their hands. Although chief legal officers want their outside counsel to have shared risk or "skin in the game," general counsel who meet their annual budget by pushing for discounted fees are unlikely to get the best long-term results. The key to doing more with less is innovation, often achieved by long-term relationships and shared information. This requires mutual trust and a willingness to share risk over time.

Henderson

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LEGAL SERVICES INNOVATION

Richard MoorheadDirector, Centre for Ethics and Law, Professor of Law and Professional

Ethics

[email protected]