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.
By:
Richard Susskind
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 195mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9780192864727
ISBN 10: 0192864726
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 May 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
Reviews for Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to your Future
A must-read for lawyers, those considering a career in the legal industry, and anyone interested in the changing legal function. Unlike most other legal industry scribes, Susskind holistically and deftly weaves together the disparate threads of the legal mosaic that will collectively transform the legal function as we know it. * Forbes * Far and away the best analyst and predictor of the evolution of the legal marketplace is Richard Susskind. * American Bar Association Journal * Already established as a classic, this book should be required reading for all law students and their teachers. It needs to be if law schools take seriously our role as stewards of the rule of law. Susskind is serious, smart and a passionately systematic thinker. * Patricia D White, Chair, ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Education, Professor of Law and Dean Emerita, University of Miami School of Law * Susskind issues a rallying cry to the legal profession to release untapped potential, painting a compelling picture of a new legal landscape that is already emerging. On the topic of the future of lawyers, no one is more thoughtful, more client-centred or more passionate. * Wim Dejonghe, Senior Partner, Allen & Overy *
