# kaal:claim:3411897-016

**Claim.** RegLegalTech startups will force the legal profession to innovate, but that task is not easily accomplished by overextended and cumbersome legal organizations that have lost the capacity for agile reinvention.

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

**Holds when.**

- applies to incumbent legal organizations facing RegLegalTech entrants

**Source quote.**

> Second, and most importantly, the legal profession will be forced by such startup companies to innovate, a task that is not easily accomplished by overextended, and often cumbersome, legal organizations that have lost the capacity for agile reinvention.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future* (2019), Part I: The Past, How We Got This Far, page 24

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - Past, Present, and Future (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411897

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `82f0aea026b3e3a526ec51bc073b3b864dc06cd9083ff9c54c550037045edaa9` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202019%20-%20Decentralization%20-%20Past%2C%20Present%2C%20and%20Future.pdf

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

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

**Keywords.** reglegaltech, legal-profession, innovation, incumbent-failure

**Related claims.**

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