

The NewLaw buzzword
Version published in the Law Institute Journal, December 2015 What is “NewLaw”? With increasing pressures disrupting and reshaping the legal industry and its markets, there have been increasing calls to change the way lawyers traditionally work (for example, Susskind in The End of Lawyers?). Some have answered with the rise of “interesting, flexible and viable alternatives to traditional law firm practices” (McCarthy). Beaton coined the “NewLaw” phrase with the blog “The ris