Tomorrow's Lawyers

Description

In its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and students. The third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s.

For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, liberalized markets, commoditization, alternative sourcing, simulated practice on the metaverse, and many new legal jobs.

This volume is a definitive and updated introduction to this future - for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize and upgrade our legal and justice systems. It offers practical guidance for everyone intending to build careers and businesses in law.

Written in an era of greater technological advance than humanity has ever witnessed, this work is a call to arms: it challenges those who feel that the law and lawyers are somehow immune from technological advance; it draws attention to the unaffordability and inaccessibility of legal service, for businesses and citizens alike; it invites the next generation of lawyers to harness the power of technology in improving and even overhauling the way in which legal and court service is currently provided.

Tomorrow's Lawyers identifies new opportunities for lawyers, new ways of helping clients and the community. It enjoins its readers to become involved in building the systems that will replace outmoded forms of legal work. It argues that it is both a privilege and an obligation for tomorrow's lawyers to embrace and bring about change.

A must-read for legal undergraduates, aspiring and young lawyers, senior practitioners, leaders in law firms and legal businesses, law professors and law teachers.

About the author:

Professor Richard Susskind OBE is President of the Society for Computers and Law, the Founder of Remote Courts Worldwide and, since 1998, has been Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. The author of 10 books, his work has been translated into 16 languages and he has been invited to speak in over 50 countries. A law graduate of Glasgow University, he wrote his doctorate on artificial intelligence and the law at Oxford University in the mid-80s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society.

Table of contents

Introduction
PART ONE: Radical Changes in the Legal Market
1:Three Drivers of Change
2:Impact of the Pandemic
3:Strategies for Success
4:Commoditizing the Law
5:Working Differently
6:Disruptive Legal Technologies
7:The Grid
PART TWO: The New Landscape
8:The Future for Law Firms
9:The Role of In-House Lawyers
10:Lawtech Startups
11:The Timing of the Changes
12:Access to Justice and Online Legal Services
13:Judges, Courts, and Technology
14:Online Courts and Online Dispute Resolution
15:The Future of Law, Revisited
PART THREE: Prospects for Young Lawyers
16:New Jobs for Lawyers
17:Who Will Employ Tomorrow s Lawyers?
18:Training Lawyers for What?
19:Replacing the Old Training Ground
20:Questions to Ask Employers
21:Innovation
22:Artificial Intelligence and the Long Term
Further Reading