This book compels the legal profession to question its current identity and to aspire to become
a strategic partner for corporate executives clients and stakeholders transforming legal into
a function that creates incremental value. It provides a uniquely broad range of
forward-looking perspectives from several different key-players in the legal industry: in-house
legal law firms LPO¿s legal tech HR associations and academia. This publication is a
platform for leading legal professionals that offers a new perspective on the accelerating
transformation in legal. Combining expert contributions with editorial insights it argues that
the new legal function will shift from a paradigm of security to one of opportunity that
future corporate lawyers will no longer primarily be negotiators litigators and administrators
but that instead they will be coaches arbiters and intrapreneurs that legal knowledge and
data-based services will become a commodity and that analytics and measurement will be key
drivers of the future of the profession. A must-read for all legal professionals this book
sets the course for revitalizing the profession.
