The legal function often finds it difficult to prove its value to the business. Legal supremacy has created a connection between lawyers that have kept others sidelined for the past several years. Lawyers tend to offer their services to fellow lawyers who share a similar mindset and skillset. As a result, lawyers may fail to realize the value of their services to other consumers. Selling to people with similar perspectives makes it hard to understand the needs of different consumers. Since lawyers only focus on their fellows, their prices are beyond the means of buyers.
Additionally, other individuals perceive that the legal services are for the well-off and fail to seek them. The legal services also tend to stick to precedency and avoid changes. Most lawyers base their work on those in the past instead of finding ways to improve and provide modifications. Lawyers also adhere to the language used in legal services, thus creating a barrier to other customers in different fields. As a result, the business sector seeks to reconstitute the law function. Through this step, the traditional sectors of the law function will get changed by business to more integrated operations that are proactive, data-driven, and suitable to serve the customers. Despite the changes made, confidentiality, privileges, and other essential principles of legal practice will get retained by lawyers.
The burden of legal function in proving its value is met when the customers’ needs are met. Some of the ways law aligns its role with customers are understanding their language, providing insights to the corporate world, help in mitigating corporate risks, function as an enterprise, and acquiring businesses. When the law function realizes the transformations in the digital space, they increase and prove their worth in business.