Mr. Michel is one of the brightest and most creative people I ve met. His eyes glint with a rapacious curiosity. He is living the ambiguity that I live every day. He is trying to define a position, test boundaries, and create stability in a rapidly changing almost anarchic environment. And, he is doing this from the inside of a profession that is inherently backward-looking.
Law is a field that is predicated on precedent.
What someone did yesterday, or a century ago, is the foundation or justification for what an attorney does tomorrow. This could not be more different from the business of the Internet. In the Internet space, power is granted in the perception that a company can accurately predict and position itself for the future. We are all about tomorrow. We are all fortunetellers.