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Linked – Why Your Law Firm Can’t Innovate

There may be something to this, in the old “When you have a hammer everything looks like a nail” sort of way. When everything looks like the nail in your area of expertise, it’s difficult to be truly innovative.

By giving up the generalist view, lawyers have given up that ability to see across industries, across legal domains, and across applied fields. Lawyers have become the anti-innovators, capable of producing highly technical documents, but little to no strategic insight. Lawyers can help you (inefficiently) execute your plan. Lawyers are not the first stop for those who want to develop the plan. In Simmons’ view, the move by lawyers to experts and away from generalists robbed them of the chance to become innovators

https://medium.com/the-algorithmic-society/why-your-law-firm-cant-innovate-58524ca2ec9

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