You are here:
  1. Home
  2. Audio video
  3. Legal breakfast series
  4. Facing the future: what are the major disruptive forces faced by law firms in the next decade?

Facing the future: what are the major disruptive forces faced by law firms in the next decade?

22 September 2010

Speakers at the event:

Jonathan Djanogly MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
Professor Stephen Mayson, professor of strategy and director, Legal Services Policy Institute
Ted Burke, chief executive, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

The issues discussed included:

  • What are the major regulatory, technological, geographical and market-based forces of discontinuity faced by firms now and in the near future? How should firms respond?
  • How will the economic and political outlook affect the legal services sector over the course of the new Parliament?
  • How will the shifting regulatory goal posts impact on the ability of firms to make choices about future business planning?
  • Will increased disaggregation of the market through LPO drive strategic planning processes within City law firms?
  • How do firms balance the risks associated with growing a commercial practice with the need to ensure increasing returns?
  • Is it possible to develop a robust strategic plan in the face of significant uncertainty about how the market will develop?

More information on this legal breakfast is available in the flyer.
Download the flyer (PDF)