Creating the law firm of the future, for fun and profit.

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One of the biggest guessing games in the legal industry right now is identifying how the law firm of the future will look. And recently, it literally became a game--FutureFirm 1.0. Over the course of two days, 44 players converged at Indiana University and embarked on role playing exercises to save the fictional--and struggling--AmLaw 200 firm Marbury & Madison LLP.

The game, created by IU's Maurer School of Law Associate Professor William Henderson and Anthony Kearns of Australia's Legal Practitioners Liability Committee, pitted teams of law firm partners, clients, law students, and consultants against each other to create a strategy that would allow Marbury & Madison to live another decade.

According to an article by Aric Press, who covered the event for the "The American Lawyer," "What emerged from the exercise was a surprising convergence of strategies that gave an outline to what a new model might look like." Press identified several areas of convergence the teams...