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lawyers are trained to be slaves to precedent, to revere the past, and Marshall McLuhan's famous quote comes true: "We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future."

most law firms around the world still practice law the way it has been practiced for centuries; a labor-intensive endeavor carried out by high-priced personnel billing by the hour. Protected by legislated monopolies, law firms have been allowed to grow complacent, fat and inefficient.