What Law Firm BD Programs Get Wrong - And What It Means for Innovation Teams
A firm can commit real resources to a legal tech or innovation function and still end up with an initiative that stalls and cannot retain the people hired to lead it. The failure modes are the same as BD - and the talent market has already figured that out.
The Legal Tech Hiring Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
Law firms are competing for a very small group of people who have both technical fluency and real law firm experience. The internal pipeline most firms never built is now the one everyone is chasing, and the traditional recruiting approach is not going to close that gap.