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Recently, Robert Half Legal took a focused look at the legal profession in a new study titled Client Dynamics Driving Change in the Legal Profession. The study identifies four key legal industry trends shaping the profession which are:
- Client service pressures mount
- General counsel take center stage
- Mobility gives rise to the virtual law practice, flexible workplace
- Demand for specialization sparks talent wars
We look at a lot of legal industry studies on these pages and what’s amazing is how much overlap can be found in the research, interviews and conversations we have across the space. A review – a literature review of sorts – seems to indicate relative consensus on the key trends.
An infographic providing the data from Robert Half – which accompanies the bullets above — is posted below. Here’s how we see the trends it identified mapping to some of the ideas and findings surfaced on this blog:
Client Service Pressures Mount
- Disruption in the Legal Industry Flows from Clients
- Slowly Being Fired: 3 Tips for Law Firm Business Development
- ELM Trends: Corporate Legal Continues Law Firm Consolidation
General Counsel Take Center Stage
- Legal Industry Evolution: Back To Business
- 9 Takeaways from the Altman Weil Law Firms in Transition Study
- 6 Emergent Trends from a Corporate Legal Department Conference
Mobility gives rise to the virtual law practice
- Legal Tech Briefs: Virtues of Virtual Law with Stacey L. Romberg
- Study: 2014 Shaping Up as Year of the Law Cloud
- Porter’s Five Forces for the Legal Industry
Demand for specialization
- 5 Takeaways from a Large Law Reinvention Strategy
- 4 Ways Tech is Changing Small Law
- 3 Notable Examples of Big Law IT Innovation
(click here to enlarge the infographic)
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