Couldn't agree more. As a working transactional attorney and hobbyist coder, I will say that the obstacle to better workflows is not (in most cases) deliberate

Couldn't agree more. As a working transactional attorney and hobbyist coder, I will say that the obstacle to better workflows is not (in most cases) deliberate inefficiency. Rather, the compensation and billing scheme at nearly all firms strongly discourages investment of time in anything that can't be billed to a specific client. Look for that to change as more firms move to fixed fee work.