Mark Michels, a Risk and Financial Advisory Managing Director at Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP, wrote about Hilarie Bass‘ opening Keynote at the CodeX FutureLaw April 5 at Stanford Law School for ALM’s Legaltech news (April 12.) Bass is the president of the American Bar Association. The article is “ABA President Challenges Legal Technologists: ‘Be Bold, Be Adventurous, Be Courageous'”.

Wrote Michels: “Bass observed that there is an inherent conflict between the disruptive impact of technological change and the practice of law. “

“Technology, by its nature, is ‘forward-looking,’ while legal training and professional responsibility rules create a legal service environment that is “backward looking” and risk-averse. Bass is concerned that the legal profession may be left behind if it does not innovate.”

Read the Legaltech news article here.
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 Credits
• Hilarie Bass photo by David Handschuh/NYLJ (ALM)
• Hilarie Bass at CodeX FutureLaw by Monica Bay.
• Mark Michels photo courtesy of Deloitte.

Monica Bay is a CodeX Fellow.