London firms move to industrialise the law

This is one of the conclusions of ‘Innovation in the City: The quiet revolution’, a report published by Legal Futures in association with Thomson Reuters. The report says: ‘A common theme is far greater sophistication in the way matters are resourced, with work assigned to the appropriate level of lawyer/non-lawyer, combined with smart technology. We have not reached Professor Richard Susskind’s vision of a matter being decomposed into its constituent parts, with each one resourced as appropriate – whether internally or externally – but the process is making firms focus on what they are good at.’ Source: Legal Futures