The article is about non-lawyer ownership of law firms. Loosening the rules on conflicts and non-lawyer ownership of law firms would enable what happened in the accounting industry: consolidation of the industry into a handful of mega-firms. I don&#x27;t see how that would be conducive to innovation. Exactly the opposite is true. A legal &quot;Big Four&quot; would be far more able to resist technological changes than the hundreds of firms competing with each other today.<p>I&#x27;m trying to think of a concrete example of protectionism keeping out new technology, and frankly I&#x27;m at a loss. I don&#x27;t think it squares with the economics. Clients these days come with a budget in mind. If a law firm can do the work with say half as many billable hours by using technology, they can bid to do the work for a fixed fee 25% below the market rate, and then pocket the difference. It&#x27;d be a no brainer, if that technology existed. Instead, more often you see firms agreeing to a budget cap and just eating hours billed over the cap.