Future of law
Susskind 2.0 digested (4)
Richard Susskind takes a while to get to his point in the latest extract from his forthcoming book The End of Lawyers?: The major firms may feel they are beyond the scope of commoditisation and systematisation and that, on bet-the-ranch deals and disputes the legal fees represent but pocket change in the grand scheme. But […]
Susskind 2.0 digested (3)
Extracted from the third Times Online extract from The End of Lawyers? Lawyers, like the rest of humanity, face the threat of “disintermediation” (broadly, being cut out of some supply chain) by smart systems; and, as in other sectors, if they want to survive, their focus should be on re-intermediating – that is, on finding […]
Susskind 2.0 – the digested read
In the second extract from his forthcoming book, The End of Lawyers?, published in Times Online, Richard Susskind revisits his predictions in 1996’s The Future of Law: I argued that … many of our fundamental assumptions about the nature of legal service and the nature of legal process would be challenged by the coming of […]
Lawyers not necessary shock
Times Online publishes the first of several excerpts from Richard Susskind’s forthcoming book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the nature of legal services, due next May from OUP, from which: the law is not there to provide a livelihood for lawyers any more than ill-health exists to offer a living for doctors. Successful legal business […]
The Next Ten Years according to Susskind
In his SCL 2006 Lecture Richard Susskind predicted that the pace of development in the coming decade will be more profound than during the last. Emerging technologies would enable transformations in the nature of legal service, the way lawyers work, relationships between lawyers and their clients, legal training and learning and dispute resolution. He sees […]
