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The Future of Law
Facing the Challenges of Information Technology
Richard Susskind
376 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-876496-0
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Paperback
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12 March 1998
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- This is the paperback edition of a best-selling and prize-winning book which was widely reviewed and highly-acclaimed
- Contains a new substantial preface
- Ignoring IT may mean commercial suicide for lawyers: the future for lawyers depends upon their response to the new technologies
- The author is well known worldwide as an expert in his field
- The book is written for the general reader to understand
This edition makes Susskind's highly-acclaimed and best-selling book available in paperback, and includes a new and substantial preface by the author. His book demonstrates why the future of the law is digital. It shows why and how IT is radically altering and will alter further the practice of law and the administration of justice. Beyond automating and streamlining traditional ways of providing legal advice, IT is re-engineering the entire legal process, resulting in legal products and information services focused on dispute pre-emption rather than dispute resolution, and legal risk management rather than legal problem solving. With easy and inexpensive
access available, IT will help to integrate the law with business and domestic life. This book explores the implications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the information society as it irrevocably changes how law will be practised and justice administered.
In this paperback edition, the author provides a substantial new preface which develops many of his central themes and takes account of likely developments in technology. The message for lawyers remains a stark one: in order to guarantee a stake in the legal system of the future, lawyers must adapt their working practices or die. The message for everyone else is an empowering one: they can now demand radically improved legal services, and if lawyers cannot provide this, many others will.
From the reviews of the hardback:
`A work of considerable scholarship and significance ... The Future of Law maps out a way forward in uncertain, but exciting, times. This ought to beand in due course will becompulsory reading for civil servants in the Lord Chancellors Department. This is not simply a book for computer enthusiasts. The general reader will gain particular benefit from this book. As just such a one, but with aspirations to be otherwise, I benefited enormously.'
The ObserverR
`The book's style is welcoming and describes a convincing scenario which law firms must address or discount if they wish to survive the onset of the virtual community. This work is strongly recommended to all persons
involved, however tangential, in the provision of legal services and for those who seek to make use of them.'
New Law Journal
`There are 40 pages of practical advice for solicitors practices of all sizes offering gravy-soaked chunks of prime consultancy that are worth the price of the book. You should read this book if you are at all interested in the development of legal practice to enable you to make sufficiently informed decisions for securing the future you would wish for your practice.'
Law Society GazetteReadership: Practising lawyers, legislators, communications professionals, IT specialists, IT journalists; practitioners and scholars of management. Legal
scholars, particularly those interested in the impact of IT on the study and practice of law. Law students.
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"'The value of the paperback edition of "The Future of Law" is twofold, for it contains not only the visionary words Professor Susskind originally wrote, but also a long and entirely new Preface bringing the book right up to date. In my view it is essential reading for all who wish to see our justice system improved, beacuse I am convinced that the problems of cost, delay and inaccessibility cannot be successfully tackled without taking full advantage of Information Technology.' Lord Saville of Newdigate, Chairman of ITAC (Information and Technology Courts Committe) February 1998"
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New substantial preface
Part I: The Current Realities
1: The Poverty of Law
2: The Power of IT
Part II: Understanding the Role of Information Technology in the Law
3: The Leading Applications
4: The Crucial Enabling Techniques
5: Technical Assumptions
Part III: The Impact of Information Technology on the Law
6: The Law as an Information System
7: Business Process Re-engineering and the Law
Part IV: The Management Challenges
8: Thinking Strategically
9: Cultivating the Culture
10: Assessing the Costs and Benefits
Part V: The Future
11: Changing Legal Education and Training
12: Lawyers and the Legal Service of Tomorrow
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