Future of the Legal Profession: Resource Page
These pages are organized by subject matter and contain articles, presentations, reports, and links to other materials to educate the bar association community about important topics. If the information you need is not covered on one of the resource pages, please feel free to contact the Division for Bar Services' Information Coordinator with regard to your question.Future of Bar Associations
Future for Law Firms
- Business Law Today: How do law firms do it and what does it change?
- Hildebrandt: Issues & Trends in Law Firm Management, Technology, and Workplace
- New York Law Journal: The Pitfalls of Law Firm Mergers (Free site registration required.)
- The Recorder: Are Mergers a Threat or Opportunity for Law Firm Nonlawyers? (Free site registration required.)
Impact on Judiciary
Role of Technology
- Law
Practice Today Webzine: Looking into the Crystal Ball for the
Legal Profession--Great Resources for Innovating Your Law Practice
- ABA Legal Technology Survey Trend Reports, which summarize each volume of the annual publication, are free to ABA members as a download. Members should click on the link that says "ABA members click HERE to download a complimentary copy..". Non-members may purchase the individual Trend Reports.
- ABA Legal Technology Resource Center: Technology and the Future of the Profession
- Law Practice Magazine: Between Lawyers Roundtable: The Future of Legal Blogging
Generational Issues
General Trends
- 2006 New England Bar Conference: The Future of the Practice of Law
- ABA Committee on Research about the Future of the Legal Profession: Final Report
- ABA Law Practice Management Section Roundtable: Looking to the Future: What Changes Do You See Coming in the Next Twenty Years?
- The Legal Futurist: Stuart Forsyth Program materials from presentations on the future of the legal profession, legal services, and CLE.
Staying Ahead of the Curve: Relevant Blogs
- ABA Legal Technology Resource Center's Sitetation Blog Learn about new web sites and other technological tools that cater to the legal community.
- Dennis Kennedy's Blog Stay up-to-date on legal technology trends with this blog by a legal technology consultant/computer lawyer
- Buzz Machine: Learn about the future of online media with this blog written by media critic Jeff Jarvis
- Acronym The Association of Association Executives' blog bills itself as an "alphabet soup of ideas for the association community".
Additional Reading
- The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World for the Next 5, 10, and 20 Years
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
- The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
- Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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