Richard Susskind OBE (IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of Engla

The End of Lawyers?

Rethinking the nature of legal services

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Produktbeschreibung

This widely acclaimed legal bestseller has ignited an intense debate within the legal profession. It examines the effect of advances in IT upon legal practice, analysing anticipated developments in the next decade. It urges lawyers to consider the sustainability of their traditional role.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Rev. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780199593613
• ISBN-10: 0199593612
• Artikelnr.: 30179802

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents:
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

Rezensionen

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