The CBA Legal Futures Initiative has developed practice tools, guides and resources to help Canada’s legal profession and professionals position for the future. Get an overview of the resources with our infographic and access them all here.
Legal Futures Guides
How to Innovate: Futures for Small and Solo Law Firms
This guide prepares small and solo firms for future challenges so you can understand the emerging trends, needs and opportunities. Learn how to innovate your legal practices to seize opportunities and remain viable and prosperous in tomorrow’s legal market.
Futures Readiness and Self-Assessment Tool
Are you prepared for the future? This checklist helps you to assess your practice.
Solo and Small Firm Evolution: A Practical Guide to Managing Change
This practical guide features innovation tools designed for the unique challenges faced by small and solo practitioners. Use the worksheets, checklists and strategy to manage change and do a cost-benefit analysis of adopting innovations in your firm.
Legal Futures Reports
Accessibility, Quality and Profitability for Personal Plight Law Firms: Hitting the Sweet Spot
Personal plight legal practice includes all legal work for clients whose needs arise from disputes, an area that experiences significant access to justice problems. This project explores sustainable innovations to make personal plight law firms’ services more accessible to all Canadians.
Do Law Differently: Futures for Young Lawyers
Why are legal careers in Canada experiencing such dramatic change? Access our survival tips for young lawyers as you chart your career in the 21st century.
A Guide to Strategy for Lawyers
This strategy guide and tool is designed for lawyers to prepare for tomorrow with practical strategies you can implement today.
Transforming the Delivery of Legal Services in Canada
In this report, the CBA provides 22 recommendations to support the future of the legal profession, from adopting technology platforms and service delivery models to new ideas about how lawyers are educated, trained and regulated.
Innovations in Legal Services: 14 Eye-Opening Cases
We put together 14 case studies to illustrate how legal service providers are changing how they do business. Discover how they respond to pressures to remain profitable while providing clients with quality legal services at lower, predictable rates.
Legal Futures archive
The following CBA Legal Futures reports, studies and guides were developed during the initiative’s early days. We’re sharing them in our archive for CBA members still inquiring about them.
- CBA Legal Futures Initiative: Report on the Consultation (2014)
- The Future of Legal Services in Canada: Trends and Issues (2013)
- Voices of Change: Canadian Social Media and Other Writings on the Future of Legal Practice (2013)
- The Client’s Perspective (2013)
- Demographic Trends (2013)
- You Can’t Argue with 100 Years of Success: Navigating Beyond the Inflection Point (2013)
- Key Trends in the Legal Marketplace (2012)
