Law new is more than a buzzword or trending industry topic. It represents a fundamental change process that will transform the legal industry and its delivery of law and services to legal consumers and society at large. It requires a shift in mindset from legal delivery to customer impact and satisfaction, a change that will produce significant business value, eliminate lost opportunity costs of protracted legal disputes, drive cost takeout targets, and produce innovative solutions to previously bespoke problems. It is a process that will create a law and legal industry that is collaborative, customer-centric, affordable, efficient, accessible, and integrated, erasing artificial, lawyer-created distinctions among provider sources.

A defining feature of law new will be the ability to integrate and leverage legal data and collective experience into more practical, predictable solutions that are less expensive than traditional bespoke legal work. This will involve the collaborative efforts of multiple providers, including law firms and in-house legal departments, to combine their knowledge, resources, and expertise to deliver a more streamlined, efficient, cost-effective, and practical alternative to traditional bespoke legal work. The collaboration will be facilitated by technology that provides a more transparent, secure, accessible, and customizable repository for centralized legal information and the ability to apply analytics and machine learning to legal data.

The collaboration will also involve the integration of legal services into other business processes and functions, notably procurement, operations, risk management, compliance, and innovation, erasing artificial, lawyer-created divisions between provider sources. This will be facilitated by the development of law-as-a-service platforms that provide greater legal transparency, accessibility, affordability, and efficiency and that enable data sharing and risk mitigation, as well as creating economies of scale. The platform approach will allow the legal industry to deliver services that are predictive, proactive, and scalable to meet growing demand, as well as to address rising risks of data breach and cyber hacking.

Lastly, the law new will require the creation of more agile, multidisciplinary teams that have the skill sets to rapidly identify, analyze, and resolve legal issues, including those involving complex business and financial transactions and regulatory concerns. This will be facilitated by the creation of law-as-a-service systems that provide real-time legal advice and guidance, enabling business leaders to make more confident decisions quickly.

A defining feature of law new will be more transparency and accountability in the making of laws. This will include open meetings requirements for all public bodies under the Open Meetings Law, which includes city councils, town boards, village boards of trustees, school boards, and committees thereof. It will also include the creation of law-as-a-service tools that allow members of Congress to research, discuss, and amend bills in real time, resulting in the creation of new laws, called public bills, which become Public Laws (or Acts) after being approved by both chambers of Congress and signed by the President.