The Future of Law

This edition makes Susskind's highly-acclaimed and best-selling book available in paperback, and includes a new and substantial preface by the author. His book demonstrates why the future of the law is digital. It shows why and how IT is radically altering and will alter further the practice of law and the administration of justice. Beyond automating and streamlining traditional ways of providing legal advice, IT is re-engineering the entire legal process,resulting in legal products and information services focused on dispute pre-emption rather than dispute resolution, and legal risk management rather than legal problem solving. With easy and inexpensiveaccess available, IT will help to integrate the law with business and domestic life. This book explores the implications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the information society as it irrevocably changes how law will be practised and justice administered. In this paperback edition, the author provides a substantial new preface which develops many of his central themes and takes account of likely developments in technology. The message for lawyers remains astark one: in order to guarantee a stake in the legal system of the future, lawyers must adapt their working practices or die. The message for everyone else is an empowering one: they can now demandradically improved legal services, and if lawyers cannot provide this, many others will. From the reviews of the hardback: A work of considerable scholarship and significance ... The Future of Law maps out a way forward in uncertain, but exciting, times. This ought to beand in due course will becompulsory reading for civil servants in the Lord Chancellors Department. This is not simply a book for computer enthusiasts. The general readerwill gain particular benefit from this book. As just such a one, but with aspirations to be otherwise, I benefited enormously.' The ObserverRThe book's style is welcoming anddescribes a convincing scenario which law firms must address or discount if they wish to survive the onset of the virtual community. This work is strongly recommended to all persons involved, however tangential, in the provision of legal services and for those who seek to make use of them.' New Law Journal`There are 40 pages of practical advice for solicitors practices of all sizes offering gravy-soaked chunks of prime consultancy that areworth the price of the book. You should read this book if you are at all interested in the development of legal practice to enable you to make sufficiently informed decisions for securing the future you would wish for yourpractice.' Law Society Gazette

“The work is intended for a wider audience than its likely readership of lawyers and members of the legal profession. The author hopes the work will stimulate the interest of the likely uses of legal information services of tomorrow./Computer Law and Security Report Vol 15 No 1, 1999”

Susskind is now described as the "new-media guru" and "the most accurite of futurologists". But whatever you choose to call him, there is no denying that Susskind's vision for the future of technololgy and the legal profession is both alarming and compelling.'LEXPERT 02/20001I would particularly recommend this book to those lawyers who are seeking to implement and develop IT in practice. ... ..the book is compelling reading because the trajectory he outlines for the legal profession remains plausible./David Bausor, Solicitor, Dibb Lupton Alsop (London)/Digital Technology Law Journal/ 20/01/99The work is intended for a wider audience than its likely readership of lawyers and members of the legal profession. The author hopes the work will stimulate the interest of the likely uses of legal information services of tomorrow./Computer Law & Security Report Vol 15 No 1, 1999'The book is both readable and though-provoking...The book should certainly be recommended for lawyers''Scottish Law Gazette (review of hardback)'The highly acclaimed 'The Future of Law' - one of 1997's best-selling legal books.''Legal Business, April 1998"...groundbreaking book"'Robert Rice, Financial Times, 3 Feb 1998.`I greatly admire Susskind's ability to address lawyers in a way they understand and are willing to listen to, even when it concerns a topic to which they are not very adaptive. In my opinion he renders the AI and Law community a service and we should be grateful for that'Anja Oskamp, Artificial Intelligence and Law 7, 1999Take the opportunity to read this book. It is well written, avoids technical jargon and uses a style and language familiar to lawyers... It contains thought-provoking ideas about the future of law and lawyers./ ... it is a book written by an expert who not only knows the theory, but has the pleasure of working at the forefront of IT development in the law./ Fiona A Westwood, the Jrnl of the Law Society of Scotland, April 1999, vol 44, no 4

Professor Richard Susskind, OBE FRSE DPhil LIBFBCS, is one of the world's leading experts on the use of IT in the law. He is an independent consultant, with a global practice, specialising in the work of large professional firms, government departments and courts of law. He is Visiting Professor to the Centre for Law, Computers and Technology at Strathclyde University and holds a First Class Honours Degree in law from Glasgow University, and a doctorate in lawand computers from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

This edition makes Susskind's highly-acclaimed and best-selling book available in paperback, and includes a new and substantial preface by the author. His book demonstrates why the future of the law is digital. It shows why and how IT is radically altering and will alter further the practice of law and the administration of justice. Beyond automating and streamlining traditional ways of providing legal advice, IT is re-engineering the entire legal process, resulting in legal products and information services focused on dispute pre-emption rather than dispute resolution, and legal risk management rather than legal problem solving. With easy and inexpensive access available, IT will help to integrate the law with business and domestic life. This book explores the implications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the information society as it irrevocably changes how law will be practised and justice administered. In this paperback edition, the author provides a substantial new preface which develops many of his central themes and takes account of likely developments in technology. The message for lawyers remains a stark one: in order to guarantee a stake in the legal system of the future, lawyers must adapt their working practices or die. The message for everyone else is an empowering one: they can now demand radically improved legal services, and if lawyers cannot provide this, many others will. From the reviews of the hardback: A work of considerable scholarship and significance ... The Future of Law maps out a way forward in uncertain, but exciting, times. This ought to beand in due course will becompulsory reading for civil servants in the Lord Chancellors Department. This is not simply a book for computer enthusiasts. The general reader will gain particular benefit from this book. As just such a one, but with aspirations to be otherwise, I benefited enormously.' The ObserverRThe book's style is welcoming and describes a convincing scenario which law firms must address or discount if they wish to survive the onset of the virtual community. This work is strongly recommended to all persons involved, however tangential, in the provision of legal services and for those who seek to make use of them.' New Law Journal`There are 40 pages of practical advice for solicitors practices of all sizes offering gravy-soaked chunks of prime consultancy that are worth the price of the book. You should read this book if you are at all interested in the development of legal practice to enable you to make sufficiently informed decisions for securing the future you would wish for your practice.' Law Society Gazette

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