Books

Il Sole 24 Ore: “The tech challenge of lawyers between uncertainty and opportunity“, Dec. 2^nd, 2019

Summary – Il Sole 24 Ore published the news on the publication of the second book of Nicola Di Molfetta by LC Publishing Group.

Law firms are struggling with technological innovation, which forces lawyers to be always updated. It is the era of the so-called new law, induced, among other things, by the creation of the first legal tech start-ups, by the entry of artificial intelligence in the studies, by different methods of managing the activity of the studies, where new occupational figures such as innovation managers, programmer lawyer, psychologists and general counsel have appeared.

All this has been based on traditional competences, which for lawyers are the study of law and legal aid, but with new perspectives. Legal tech, in fact, is becoming an increasingly important industry, able to attract important investments and to modify the competitive scenario of the market. A horizon that in Italy is beginning to glimpse, while abroad there are already law firms that recognize innovation as a strategic priority.

How to combine tradition and technological innovation? How could we be prepared for it? These are some of the questions answered by Nicola Di Molfetta in his book “Lex machine. Innovation, technology and lawyers: how the market changes and what we have to know to succeed“.

• Il Foglio “BUSINESS LAWYERS, THE GREAT BUSINESS OF BUSINESS FACILITATORS” – Gianluca Ferraris, 21^st Dec. 2017 

Extract:

• Press review “Cassa forense” – Dec. 19^th, 2017

Extract – from the article written by Giovanni Negri for Il Sole 24 Ore, Dec. 12^th, 2017

(…) “In 2007, the market already counted more than 5,000 professionals at the first hundred business firms active in Italy. 10 years later, more than 6,000 are active only in the first 50 professional associations engaged in this sector. In the same period of time, there were about 700 partners of these studies who changed careers, legitimising the phenomenon of “professional divorces” once considered a cause of scandal within the legal class and making it, in the long run, a custom. Only in the last five years of the decade that we are observing, that is between 2012 and 2016, it is estimated that these side passages have moved more than 400 million turnover.
There is therefore great effervescence and difficulty in identifying a single model of professional study, when, after the competition law, there is also a cautious entry of the capital shareholder. The book drops many veils and traces the identikit of what in the end remains still a stranger (because, rightly asks Di Molfetta, everyone knows what a bank is, but not a business lawyer?): still in 2015 44% of the companies with a turnover of more than 50 million, did not use a lawyer, for any reason, not even for legal one.”

• Corriere della Sera – “BUSINESS LAWYERS REVOLVING DOORS” – Isidoro Trovato, Dec. 18^th, 2017

Extract:

• Il Sole 24 Ore – “IF LEGAL STUDIOS CHANGE SKIN” – Giovanni Negri, Dec. 12^th, 2017.

• Lettera 43 – “2006-2016 Avvocati d’Affari” Anticipation of the Book” – Dec. 2^nd, 2017

Extract:

“Lettera43.it publishes an extract on “The derivation of consultants”. In his book Nicola Di Molfetta tells stories and secrets of the protagonists who in 10 years have revolutionized a sector.
Lettera43.it publishes an anticipation of the book 2006-2016 Business lawyers: secrets, stories, protagonists. The chapter is entitled “The drift of consultants” and tells in time laps 10 years of armchair revolutions that have changed the geography of this sector.” (continues…)