Beyond Boilerplate: Bringing Your Strategy Process Back to Life

Abstract

Given the need in today's competitive environment to examine carefully our directions for the future, I submit that the state of most law firms' formal strategic planning tends to be too structured (read: boilerplated). Have we even thought about how the future of our profession may unfold over the foreseeable next few years, assuming a prolonged decline in demand for legal services; assuming the continuing emergence of legal tech companies attacking every segment of the market; or assuming how the advent of artificial intelligence and big data are going to impact your practice?