# kaal:claim:3227967-014

**Claim.** The most important consequence of legal startups is that the legal profession will be forced to innovate in perpetuity, a task that overextended and cumbersome legal organizations which have lost the capacity for rapid re-invention cannot easily accomplish.

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

**Holds when.**

- incumbent law firms and legal departments facing startup competition

**Source quote.**

> Second, and most importantly, 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 rapid re-invention.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters* (2018), IV. Legal Tech, page 16

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

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**Failure mode.** Incumbent inability to innovate perpetually  (family: incumbent-resistance-to-adoption)

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

**Keywords.** legal-tech, innovation, law-firms, organizational-change

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-010
- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3411897-016

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