num_pages: 303
description: The End of Lawyers? is the much-anticipated sequel to Richard Susskind's legal best-seller of 1996 The Future of Law . Ten years on and half-way towards the twenty-year vision he set out Susskind takes stock of progress introduces vital new emerging technologies and envisages even moreradical change to the legal world than before.This is a world in which at least in part legal services are commoditized IT renders conventional legal advice redundant clients and lawyers are collaborators under the one virtual roof disputes are dominated by technology if not avoided in the first place and online systems and servicescompete with lawyers in providing access to the law and to justice. For the conservative legal adviser the message is bleak. For the progressive lawyer an exciting new legal market emerges.This book continues the author's focus on the effect of advances in information technology upon the law and legal practice providing fresh perspectives and analysis of anticipated developments in the decade to come. In particular he aims to explore the extent to which the role of the traditionallawyer can be sustained in the face of the challenging trends in the legal marketplace and the new techniques and technologies for the delivery of legal services.
language: English
title: The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services
publisher: Oxford University Press