# kaal:claim:2939127-010

**Claim.** Legal Tech startups will force the legal profession to innovate perpetually, a demand that overextended and cumbersome legal organizations which have lost the capacity for agile reinvention cannot easily meet.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- incumbent legal organizations with traditional hierarchical structures

**Source quote.**

> the legal profession will be forced by such startup companies to innovate in perpetuity, a task that is not easily accomplished by overextended and — often — cumbersome legal organizations that have lost the capacity for agile re-invention.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution* (2017), II. Legal Tech's Disruptive Legal Innovation, page 13

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

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**Failure mode.** lost-capacity-for-agile-reinvention  (family: incumbent-resistance-to-adoption)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, education-and-practice, innovation, institutional-design

**Keywords.** legal-profession, perpetual-innovation, organizational-agility, legal-tech

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