New Business World, New Legal Models

As business innovation and collaboration become paramount to competitive success, it is clearer than ever that organizations are not solving legal, financial or even technology challenges, but are instead solving business challenges.

By their very nature and training, lawyers are well-suited for this brave new world: issue spotters and complex problem solvers intimately familiar with the operating system of business. Make no mistake, financial systems may underpin business, but the rule of law is the system on which it operates. With that in mind, lawyers will only become more central to business operations in the future.

Legal services, regardless of the delivery method, need to be highly interconnected and aligned with the goals of the business. Organizations today do not operate in self-contained silos where business units across disciplines do not communicate. Businesses can no longer tease apart the interwoven issues such as law, cybersecurity, public