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The End of Lawyers?
Rethinking the nature of legal services
Richard Susskind OBE
320 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954172-0
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Hardback
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20 November 2008
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- Follows on from the author's legal best-seller of 1996, The Future of Law, taking stock of the developments in legal practice in the past decade, and envisaging further radical changes in the decade to come
- Lays down fundamental challenges for the legal sector (including practising lawyers, courts, academics) - the book has far-reaching and profound consequences for all legal readers
- Clear analysis of the effect of advances in information technology upon the law and legal services, written in punchy non-technical language, it is accessible to a reader without particular knowledge of information technology or management trends, or to those without a legal background
- With a highly practical focus, the book offers viable and sensible solutions for change and action
- Written by a widely acknowledged expert, building on credible past work, whose predictions have proven to be sound - readers can be confident that they are reading an authoritative and reliable work
- Modular layout of the book enables readers to dip into the book and benefit from its insights
In this much anticipated sequel to the legal bestseller, The Future of Law, Susskind lays down a challenge to all lawyers to ask themselves, with their hands on their hearts, what elements of their current workload could be undertaken differently - more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working. The challenge for legal readers is to identify their distinctive skills and talents, the capabilities that they possess that cannot, crudely, be replaced by advanced systems or by less costly workers supported by technology or standard processes, or by lay people armed with online
self-help tools.
It is argued that the market is increasingly unlikely to tolerate expensive lawyers for tasks (guiding, advising, drafting, researching, problem-solving, and more) that can equally or better be discharged, directly or indirectly, by smart systems and processes. It follows, the book claims, that the jobs of many traditional lawyers will be substantially eroded and often eliminated. This is where the legal profession will be taken, it is argued, by two forces: by a market pull towards commoditisation and by pervasive development and uptake of information technology. At the same time, the book foresees new law jobs emerging which may be highly rewarding, even if very different from those of
today.Readership: Legal practitioners and the judiciary, worldwide; legal policy-makers; consultants interested in the provision of legal services or the business and management of professional service firms; information technologists; academics and law students; reference libraries worldwide.
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Richard Susskind OBE, IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales; Honorary Professor, Gresham College, London; Law columnist at The Times; Chair, Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information; Independent adviser to global professional firms
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"This is an outstanding publication. Buy it. Read it. Think about it." - Douglas Mill, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
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1: The beginning of the end
The challenge for lawyers
Four thoughts
A journey
The Future of Law
Progress over the last decade
The flow of this book
2: The evolution of legal service
The path to commoditisation
The pull of the market
Shedding light on various conundra
Decomposing legal service
Resourcing the evolution
Two case studies
3: Trends in technology
Exponential growth
Information satisfaction
Community and collaboration
The net generation
Clicks and mortals
Disruptive technologies
4: Disruptive legal technologies
Document assembly
Online community
e-learning
Personalised alerting
The electronic market
Online legal guidance
Embedded legal content
5: The client grid
The asymmetry of lawyers and clients
The law firm grid
The client grid
Three possible models
Meeting clients' challenges
The role of clients
6: Resolving and dissolving disputes
Litigation support revisited
Electronic disclosure
Electronic filing
Case management
Online dispute resolution
Dispute avoidance
7: Access to law and to justice
Public information policy
Critique
Current systems
Promulgation
A law unto itself?
Afterword
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The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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