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Introduction
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
Richard Susskind is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to
international professional firms and national governments. His
views on the future of legal service have influenced a generation
of lawyers around the world. He has written numerous books,
including The Future of Law (Oxford, 1996) and Transforming the Law
(Oxford, 2000), and has been a regular columnist at The Times. He
has been invited to lecture in over 40 countries, and has addressed
legal
audiences (in person and electronically), numbering more than
200,000. Richard is Honorary and Emeritus Law Professor at Gresham
College, London, Visiting Professor in Internet Studies at the
Oxford
Internet Institute, Oxford University, and IT adviser to the Lord
Chief Justice of England and Wales. He holds a doctorate in law
from Balliol College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the British
Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was
awarded an OBE in 2000 for services to IT in the Law and to the
Administration of Justice.
`Anyone who wishes to understand where the profession has been and
where it is going shoudl read the book'
Jonathon Groner, www.freedman-chicago.com
`Review from hardback edition His advice cannot be ignored by those
lawyers who want to survive the economic turmoil'
Joshua Rozenberg, The Law Society Gazette
`I feel Susskind has made an excellent start by opening up the
debate''
Phillip Taylor, The Barrister
`The End of Lawyers is a fascinating and timely book'
Bruce MacEwen, Adam Smith Esq
`This book is addictive! Susskind has done it again with an
extremely engaging blend of advice.'
Patrick McKenna
`I believe anyone working in a professional service form could find
useful examples of what can be accomplished in their own
profession, throughout this book'
Patrick McKenna
`Richard Susskind's predictions of 1996, in The Future of Law, can
now be seen to be coming to pass. I am confident that those in this
new work, where he looks even further into the future, will
likewise come to pass, given the extraordinary depth of knowledge,
analysis and reasoning he has brought to bear and which this book
demonstrates on every page'
Lord Saville of Newdigate, President of the Society for Computers
and Law
`Richard Susskind speaks to the issues facing law firms big and
small, in-house legal teams, legal publishers, training
establishments and individual lawyers. He has a lucid style
informed by personal experience and observation and deep
connections within the legal profession. This book should be
compulsory reading for all who care about the future of the
law.'
Mark Harding, Group General Counsel, Barclays
`If you don't quickly absorb what Susskind has to say, you'll
already be behind in adapting to the modern legal profession,
in-house as well as private practice. You can't and won't agree
with everything here, but you must read it all and think about it
all. It would be irresponsible (and self-destructive) to avoid
reflecting on the voluminous arguments and examples presented
here.'
David Maister, consultant and author, The Trusted Advisor
`Susskind remains the only the writer today who can put the future
of lawyers and the legal professions on the agenda at the highest
levels of government, the judiciary, the legal institutions, major
corporations - and law firms'
Charles Christian, editor, Legal Technology Insider
`In The End of Lawyers?, Richard Susskind brilliantly and
passionately shows us how to think about practising law in the 21st
century. The book's inspirational outlook and yet practical
approach make it a must-read for any lawyer aspiring to achieve
professional success and make a difference for his or her
clients.'
Dov Seidman, Chairman and CEO, LRN, and author, HOW
`Richard Susskind's new book tells us that we should, contrary to
the profession's engrained conservatism, turn our mind to the
future to better understand the profession and the law. It is
thought-provoking and entertaining at the same time. I strongly
encourage law firms and in-house lawyers to read this book and to
embrace the new methods and technologies that Richard Susskind is
recommending'
Peter Kurer, Chairman, UBS
`This is a fascinating book. It raises serious questions not only
about the future of legal practice, but about how legal services
are structured and delivered now. As is to be expected from
Susskind, the arguments are pacey and challenging. The conclusions
and predictions are likely to provoke strong reactions, but the
book will not fail to engage.'
Professor Dame hazel Genn,Dean, University College London Faculty
of Laws
`A wide-ranging book that is of value not only to lawyers
contemplating their future, but to anyone whose work touches upon
the law. Blending the futures of law and technology, Susskind's
vision is far-reaching and tightly-argued, showing the displacement
that lies ahead -- and the ways in which society can gain from
it'
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and author,
The Future of the Internet
`This book paints a scary future. But as a call to arms, to embrace
the future, it lays down a challenge for lawyers everywhere for we
have no birthright, no power to avoid development, to 'freeze the
frame'. Susskind makes a most persuasive case that the 'incremental
revolution' has already arrived; so join it or be left on the wrong
side of the barricades.'
Stuart Popham, Senior Partner, Clifford Chance
`Susskind's engaging book urges a drastic reassesment of the legal
profession and suggests a series of reforms for law firms of the
future'
The In-House Lawyer d
`In light of the current economic climate, Susskind may find that
his predictions come true sooner than even he thinks'
The In-House Lawyer
`This is an enormously important book, and if you have any interest
in how the legal marketplace will operate in future, you have to
read it'
Jordan Furlong, www.law21.ca
`We talk a lot about "visionaries" these days, but in the legal
profession, nobody seriously competes with Richard Susskind for
this title, and this book shows why'
Jordan Furlong, www.law21.ca
`The End of Lawyers is a must read for every managing partner in
the country'
Mitch Kowalski, Financial Post
`This is a strikingly thought-provoking book and a must-read for
all law firms'
Modus Operandi
`This book makes some clear predictions about what lawyers will do
and not do in the future, but is most valuable for raising the
issues in the first place. It is a proactive peek into the possible
future of legal work and the lawyers who perform it'
Mark C, Miller, Law and Politics Book Review
`The End of Lawyers? is a road map to the archipelago of legal
innovation already emerging all around us. Ignore it at your
peril'
Michael Stern, The AM Law Daily
`If you are ready to look into Susskind's question, this book makes
a fascinating reading. And if you are serious about embracing the
changing environment, it is a primer for new ideas in bold
action'
Karen Bell, LawPro
`If you are a lawyer and haven't read Richard's book, you should.
And no, reading the reviews and the articles about the book won't
suffice. Buy the book, sit in a quiet room and read deeply about
his predictions of the future of the practice of law'
Jason Mendelson, Mendelson's Musings d
`This should be essential reading for anyone who does not believe
that legal education at degree and postgraduate level will not be
transformed by technology'
Legal Studies, vol 29, no 4
`If you have not read the book then I commend it to you'
Archie Miller, www.journalonline.co.uk
`This is an outstanding publication. Buy it. Read it. Think about
it.'
Douglas Mill, Journal of the Law Society of Scotland
`Susskind's book will deservedly be the starting point for an
understanding of the potentials and the failings of technology and
legal services. It is a book stocked with ideas and examples in
which I would defy any open-minded reader not to see the potential
for significant change in the legal world'
Richard Moorhead, Cardiff Law School, Legal Studies 29.4
`The End of Lawyers is a fascinating and challenging book. Susskind
gently and persuasively chips away at the assumptions and
preferences that we carry with us about what law is and how it is
provided. His book is essential reading not just for law students
and their methodology professors but for acadmics and practitioners
more generally'
Emilie Hunter, Human Rights Law Review
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