Innovation Theory as a Synthesis of Analytical, Predictive, and Project Activities. LegalOps and IT-Competencies of Lawyers

A contemporary labor market demands employees who are not just legal practitioners but also legal partners and strategists capable of participating in project implementation and business process transformation within cross-functional company (organization) teams. The paper is dedicated to exploring the methodology and practice of organizing analytical, prognostic, and project activities aimed at integrating legal innovation into the university ecosystem of legal education. The authors examine the concepts of legal analytics and legal forecasting, along with the definition, characteristics, and main types of projects within the innovative project activities of a law university. Using the experience of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) as a case study, the authors elucidate the transformation of the educational process aimed at preparing not only legal practitioners but also legal partners and strategists within higher education (Bachelor’s program in «Innovative Jurisprudence»); the potential of additional professional education to develop polymathic thinking in legal strategists («cross-cutting» competencies in related fields: marketing, management, data analytics, PR, design, financial management, etc.); the practice of training specialists in LegalOps in the «Digital Department» project. According to expert assessments, the legal profession is among the leaders in terms of the volume of functions subject to automation, including the use of artificial intelligence. The use of generative AI poses risks of degrading creative abilities of lawyers, critical thinking skills, the ability to search for and analyze information in complex hierarchical systems of sources and to verify them, etc. The paper argues that, on the contrary, mastering algorithmic and developing LegalTech solutions based on No-Code and Low-Code technologies contributes not to the decline of legal thinking but to its structuring.

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