Preliminary results from Bloomberg Law’s Legal Ops & Tech 2022 Survey suggest that lawyers are still not expanding their multidisciplinary teams to include non-attorneys. In fact, more than 75% of initial respondents report that a group of attorneys alone is sufficient to form a multidisciplinary team.
This leaves a relatively small percentage—less than a quarter—of respondents who believe that multidisciplinary teams should include at least one non-attorney. And while this represents an increase from last year’s responses (from 18.5% in 2021 to 22% in 2022), it continues to raise the question of whether lawyers truly understand the purpose and nature ...