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Guest commentators Rob Booth (The Crown Estate), Stéphanie Hamon (Norton Rose Fulbright) and Stephen Allen (Elevate) outline their new collaborative project The Bionic Lawyer.
‘I am you. I am your colleagues. I am what your customers have always dreamed of. I am The Bionic Lawyer…’ And so began an open letter to the legal industry from the Bionic Lawyer Project. That letter, published on 24 September last year, marked the end of the beginning of our project, as a year of energised collaboration paved the way for releasing 16 ‘levers’. Those 16 levers set, we believe, the design principles for the future legal industry.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves. What is the Bionic Lawyer Project? In a nutshell, the project has brought together over 500 (wonderful) #bioniclawyercontributors, from across the legal industry and well beyond it, with a purpose. That purpose is to unlock the potential of the legal industry; to establish what we must do and the changes we must make, in order to ensure that we have a thriving legal ecosystem.
