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The Rise of the Legal Consultant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

Matthew Leopold
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Abstract

In this article Matthew Leopold, Head of Brand and Communications at LexisNexis, discusses the rise of the legal consultant and concludes that while the platform model is positioned well as a disrupter, the traditional law firm model is not going away anytime soon, with talent retention likely to become the biggest challenge for all legal firms over the next few years.

Keywords

law firmslegal consultants
Type
BIALL Annual Conference 2022: A Selection of Papers
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , December 2022 , pp. 201 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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