From You Can’t Make Lawyers into Techies: 3 Lessons About LPM:
Certainly, lawyers are not Luddites, determined to resist progress and deny any change. It’s that they are lawyers, not IT types. So that’s Lesson One: You can’t make lawyers talk IT; IT has to learn to talk lawyer.
Lesson Two is that lawyers insist on immediate gratification. They will happily sacrifice technological sophistication with its attendant steep learning curve for instant utility.
Lesson Three is the need for patience when introducing any sweeping change that seriously impacts traditional behaviors. Lawyers don’t welcome transformative changes, but they will accept sequential phase shifts if only because their competitors do.