Legal Transformation? Mirage Turned Reality

Abstract

For those awaiting transformation of the legacy legal delivery model, it’s been a long, frustrating wait punctuated by high hopes and dashed expectations. The Economist raised legal transformation expectations in a 2011 article featuring Clearspire, a revolutionary law firm and legal services company founded in Spring 2008. Clearespire reimagined the delivery of legal services from the client perspective. Its custom-built technology platform, fixed-fee billing model that aligned the economic interests of clients-firm-lawyers, and client access to data (work product of all firm matters undertaken on its behalf), were among its many innovations. Clearspire captured the imagination of the industry, but failed to achieve financial success.

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