Slides on legal innovation from 2015 TRU Society of Law Students Conference.

1. Technology and Innovation in Legal
Practice
Omar Ha-Redeye

2. Innovation
• Something “new”
–Idea
–Device
–Process

3. Law
• Something old (traditional)
–Stare decisis
–Deference
–Risk adverse

6. Source: Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press, 2001).

7. Why Even Bother to Change/Innovate
• Rising legal costs
– Majority of Canadians cannot afford legal services
– Risk losing self-regulated status
• Rising unemployment of lawyers
– Too many graduates?
– Too many international graduates?
– Too few articling positions?
• Rising knowledge transfer to public domain
– Self-reps becoming the norm
– Cost shifting to risk management instead of legal
advice