If lawyers cannot offer modern, global universal services to clients, the CPAs and consultants will. I think not. The Microsoft case is a good example of the problem of our increasingly obsolete legal system. By the time the Justice Department obtains a final order, Linux may well be the dominant operating system and Microsoft will be two or three businesses down the road. The final result won t matter anymore.
Regulatory results are less and less relevant in a lightning-fast world.
As a former regulator, I know the frustrations firsthand, and so does business. I would like to be a part of the solution, but I fear there is not much time for debate. Our Profession is in Crisis That opinion, multiplied thousands of times, is a fact that we must acknowledge and deal with. Ours is a profession in crisis, and the crisis is all the more dangerous because few lawyers truly understand the seriousness of the challenges we face. I believe that we may have a short window of opportunity in which to respond.