The Delivery of Legal Services in the 21st Century
Technology is disrupting a wide range of industries, yet legal services have been slow to evolve. This program will explore why lawyers have not adapted quickly to changes in technology and explain how the marketplace has responded. The program will conclude with a prediction of how the public, including business owners, will access legal services in the near future.
About Andrew
Andrew Perlman is the dean and a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School.
Andy is a nationally recognized voice on the future of legal education and law practice. He was the chief reporter of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Ethics 20/20, which was responsible for updating the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct to reflect changes in technology and increased globalization. He also served as the vice chair of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, which produced projects and recommendations designed to
improve how legal services are delivered and accessed. Most recently, he was appointed by the president of the American Bar Association to serve as the chair of the governing council of the ABA’s new Center for Innovation.
Andy was the founding director of Suffolk’s Institute on Law Practice Technology and Innovation as well as the related Legal Technology and Innovation Concentration. In 2015, Andy was recognized by FastCase as one of 50 “entrepreneurs, innovators, and trailblazers … who have charted a new course for the delivery of legal services.”
Andy has written numerous articles on professional responsibility that have appeared in some of the nation’s leading law reviews. He is a co-author (since 2008) of the annually updated book, Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards (with Stephen Gillers and Roy D. Simon) and a civil procedure casebook, Civil Procedure: A Coursebook (with Professors Joseph W. Glannon and Peter Raven-Hansen) that has been adopted at more than 70 law schools. Andy regularly
speaks about professional responsibility and the future of legal services at academic conferences, bar association programs, and local and international law firms.
Prior to entering academia, Andy clerked for a federal district court judge in Chicago and practiced as a litigator there. He is an honors graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, and he received his LL.M from Columbia Law School.