This 3-page blog post addresses the topic of creative destruction and its relationship to legal education and the legal services market. It reviews Professor Ray Campbell's article, which applies Clayton Christensen's influential work in the business sector to the legal services market. This blog post includes links to examples of situations where the terms creative destruction and creative disruption have been applied to legal services. It also includes links to some of the contemporary dialogue about the scope of lawyer regulation and innovation in the legal services market.

As the concluding paragraph of this blog post explains, Campbell’s article gives the reader the background and vocabulary to better understand references to “creative destruction” and to participate in the important ongoing dialogue about lawyer regulation and our legal system. I recommend Professor Campbell’s “disruptive innovation” article to all legal academics regardless of specialty or country—because we all have a stake in this debate.