This is the warning given to Australian magazine Lawyers Weekly by Ben Wrightwick, lead consultant at software provider HighQ and speaker at the Janders Dean Legal Knowledge & Innovation Conference in September. 'In the last three years the legal landscape has changed dramatically and law firms are suddenly realising that the old way isn’t going to be the right way in the future,' he told Lawyers Weekly. Only 'a few' law firms will succeed, he predicts, and those will be the ones who learn to 'work smarter, not harder, and change'. Outsourcing has helped some firms deal with technological change, he says, but even this development really only 'papers the cracks'. Mr Wrightwick, who used to work at CMS Cameron McKenna in London, said that technology advances are being pushed in law firms by client demand and the pressure of young lawyers with a strong interest in IT, rather than coming from the leaders of the law firms themselves.