BIGLAW 2040: What will happen when Gen Z is in charge? — from law360.com by Natalie Rodriguez
Excerpts:
The opportunities that BigLaw has begun offering associates to spend months-long stints working out of international offices will evolve from rare resume brags to almost standard career milestones for those interested in leadership positions.
“If you don’t have global experience, you’re not becoming a CEO anymore, and that’s going to be true of becoming a managing partner. If you want to be a global business, you’re going to have to understand the world,” Wilkins said.
The legal leaders of 2040 will also have to expand their circle — think data technicians, cybersecurity professionals, chief knowledge officers, legal tech and artificial intelligence systems engineers, all of whom are going to play much larger roles in the BigLaw ecosystem in the next few decades.
Addendum on 2/11/20:
The Skills Every Future Lawyer Needs — from law360.com by Erin Coe
Excerpt:
To provide those outcomes and solutions, many lawyers of the future will be responsible for building the systems that replace the old ways of working.
They will become legal knowledge engineers, legal risk managers, legal systems analysts, legal design thinkers and legal technologists, and they will be the ones solving clients’ problems, not through one-on-one advice, but through technology-delivered solutions, according to Susskind.
The challenge for existing lawyers is whether they are prepared over the next 20 years to retrain themselves for these new roles.