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Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction To Your Future
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Tomorrow's Lawyers is divided into three parts. The first is an updated restatement of Richard Susskind's views on the future of legal services, as laid out in his previous bestselling works, The Future of Law , Transforming the Law, and The End of Lawyers? . He identifies key drivers of change, such as the economic downturn, and considers how these will impact on the legal marketplace. In the second part, Susskind sketches out the new legal landscape as he predicts it, including the changing role of law firms, and in-house lawyers, with virtual hearings and online dispute resolution. The third part focuses on the prospects for aspiring lawyers, predicting what new jobs and new employers there will be, and equipping prospective lawyers with penetrating questions to put to their current and future employers.
This new edition has been fully updated to include an introduction to online dispute resolution, Susskind's views on the debates surrounding artificial intelligence and its role in the legal world, a new analysis of new jobs available for lawyers, and a retrospective evaluation of The Future of Law , Susskind's prediction published in 1996 about the future of legal services.
This is the essential introduction to the future of law for those who want to succeed in the rapidly changing legal landscape.
- ISBN-100198796633
- ISBN-13978-0198796633
- Edition2nd
- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date25 May 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions19.3 x 1.02 x 12.7 cm
- Print length240 pages
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"...all members of the legal profession and those thinking of joining should read this book very carefully because the subject-matter will not be going away for any of us."-Phillip Taylor, MBE,The Barrister
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Publication date : 25 May 2017
- Edition : 2nd
- Language : English
- Print length : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0198796633
- ISBN-13 : 978-0198796633
- Item weight : 249 g
- Dimensions : 19.3 x 1.02 x 12.7 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 297,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC (Hon) is Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, and for 25 years, from 1998 to 2023, was Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. The author of 11 books, his work has been translated into 16 languages and he has been invited to speak in over 50 countries. He wrote his doctorate on AI and law at Balliol College Oxford in the mid-1980s. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2017This book was a most enlightening read! It gave depth of the insight the author has in terms of legal "business/practice development"; and is a book that every attorney, who is looking at his/her future in the profession, should read.
It's applicability extends beyond just the USA, but to other less-developed jurisdictions, who are catching up to the huge developments that have, are and will happen in the future.
What was most surprising to me was the fact that the author is not a "doomsday prophet" in respect of losses of jobs in the legal profession; but rather re-focuses the types of jobs that graduates of law programmes across the world might be directed into.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2026Excellent for anyone interested in Law
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This should be mandatory reading before embarking on your LLB journey
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2018I bought this as a starting point for a conference on AI that i attended. It is a brilliant book- it addresses a lot of ideas about tomorrow’s lawyers and I honestly think it should be mandatory reading for year 1 students. I felt cheated by my uni having discovered this at the end of my degree, but not all is lost.
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Well written abd spot on
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2018Well written great insights
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Luca Barlassina5 out of 5 starsBrilliant and well-grounded predictions
Reviewed in Italy on 5 October 2019The brilliant and well-grounded predictions contained in this book, particularly, on the outsourcing of legal services and future development of AI, are a must read for any lawyers in private practice and in-house. I would suggest it also to people in legal tech industry or anyhow connected to legal services. It is well written, never boring and goes straight to the point, so it gives with little effort and time, a clear view of the most important distruptive changes to expect in the future.
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Amransh Visharat3 out of 5 starsBest book for lawyers
Reviewed in India on 16 June 2020Best for young lawyers and law students
3 out of 5 starsBest book for lawyers
Reviewed in India on 16 June 2020Best for young lawyers and law students
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Bruna Luzes5 out of 5 starsExcelente visão sobre o futuro da advocacia
Reviewed in Brazil on 1 October 2023Leitura altamente recomendada para a nova geração de advogados e para aqueles que já atuam há mais tempo. As previsões podem parecer assustadoras inicialmente, mas muito do que é levantado no livro aconteceu durante a pandemia. São especulações bem lúcidas sobre o futuro da profissão, aplicáveis às mais diversas jurisdições.
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agostino corfini5 out of 5 starsAn essay to be taught at law schools
Reviewed in the United States on 6 April 2019Every lawyer in the world should have read this book. If you want to be aware of what is happening to you and to your profession, and if you want to anticipate the change, you better hurry and buy this brillant essay of Professor Richard Susskind.
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Aurelio Lopez-Tarruella Martinez5 out of 5 starsMuy buen libro
Reviewed in Spain on 26 January 2018Aborda los retos que las tecnologías de la informacion suponen para las profesiones jurídicas, una perspectiva novedosa pues otros libros se limitan a tratar como afectan las TICs al Derecho.
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