This book compels the legal profession to question its current identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives, clients and stakeholders, transforming legal into a function that creates incremental value. It provides a uniquely broad range of forward-looking perspectives from several different key-players in the legal industry: in-house legal, law firms, LPO's, legal tech, HR, associations and academia. This publication is a platform for leading legal professionals that offers a new perspective on the accelerating transformation in legal. Combining expert contributions with editorial insights, it argues that the new legal function will shift from a paradigm of security to one of opportunity; that future corporate lawyers will no longer primarily be negotiators, litigators and administrators, but that instead they will be coaches, arbiters and intrapreneurs; that legal knowledge and data-based services will become a commodity; and that analytics and measurement will be key drivers of the future of the profession. A must-read for all legal professionals, this book sets the course for revitalizing the profession.

Kai Jacob is Head of Global Contract Management Service, SAP SE, and Board-Member of IACCM. Dierk Schindler is Head of Legal Field EMEA & Worldwide Contract Management NetApp. A PhD in law from University of Augsburg, Dr. Schindler also lectures at the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI), Austria and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. Roger Strathausen, Ph.D. Stanford University, is a Consultant and Lecturer at Technical University (TU) Berlin and HWR Berlin. Dr. Strathausen was also an executive at Accenture.