Law firms are changing slower than clients, says Seyfarth chair

Stephen Poor, chair of Seyfarth Shaw, has said that lawyers are 'notoriously bad listeners' and that the voices of leaders of law firms is 'conspicuously missing' in debates about the sector's road to change.
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Explaining that he recently took to Twitter 'to engage in candid conversations', Mr Poor laments recent Altman Weil research which concluded that 63 per cent of law firm leaders were not taking more steps to change their business models 'because clients were not asking for change'. 

Willingness to rethink

In an article written for Bloomberg - which highlighted him as unusual among the AmLaw 100 leaders in using Twitter - he urges both corporate counsel and law firm leaders to develop a 'genuine willingness to rethink and redesign the delivery of legal services'. Source: Bloomberg Business of Law

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