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AOL founder Steve Case underlined my perceived theme of the day in a panel called "Be Fearless: How Big Ideas, Experimentation and Failing Forward Can Save the World." The title was a bit grandiose for my taste, but the message delivered by Case and his wife Jean, who runs the Case Foundation with him, is a really important one for law firms. There are two kinds of businesses in the world, Case said: attackers and defenders. Attackers are disrupters of the status quo. They have big, transformative ideas. Defenders resist change and risk. They move slowly and incrementally. Most start-ups are attackers, Case said; established companies tend to be defenders, "trying to protect what they've got." But the businesses that will continue to succeed, he said, are those that "manage what's there with an eye toward what's coming." (As examples, he cited Google and Wayne Gretzky.)

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