Four Trends Reshaping The Legal Industry

In the LexisNexis Business of Law Blog, Frank Strong looks at four key legal industry trends that were identified in a study by Robert Half Legal, the legal placement firm. There is a remarkable degree of industry consensus regarding these trends, and in his post Strong links to a number of other articles and posts that corroborate or elaborate on them. One of the four is identified simply as mounting pressure for client services, and one way that firms are responding is by deploying specialized teams,consisting of partners, associates and paralegals.