Tomorrow's lawyers : an introduction to your future / Richard Susskind.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

2nd edition

87616

Practice of law.

Law -- Vocational guidance.

Technology and law.

PART 1: Radical changes in the legal market

1. Three drivers of change

2. Strategies for success

3. Commoditizing the law

4. Working differently

5. Disruptive legal technologies

PART 2: The new landscape

6. The future for law firms

7. The shifting role of in-house lawyers

8. The timing of the changes

9. Access to justice and online legal services

10. Judges, technology, and virtual courts

11. Online courts and online dispute resolution

12. 'The Future of Law', revisited

PART 3: Prospects for young lawyers

13. New jobs for lawyers

14. Who will employ young lawyers

15. Training lawyers for what?

16. Replacing the old training ground

17. Questions to ask employers

18. Artificial intelligence and the long term.

The first introduction for young and aspiring lawyers to the new legal landscape and how to succeed in it. A revised and updated vision of the future, by one of the world's leading experts whose past predictions for the law have generally come to pass. Provides solutions to major concerns within the legal profession, such as diminishing public funding, and explores alternative roles for future lawyers in a world increasingly dominated by IT. Identifies new employers for lawyers of the future and equips young lawyers with questions to ask prospective employers New to this Edition: A new chapter to introduce and discuss online dispute resolution. A new chapter to revisit and evaluate The Future of Law - published in 1996, a 20-year prediction about the future of legal services. Exploring what was foreseen, what was not, and, above all, how much the legal world has already changedition: A new diagram to depict the evolution of legal service with accompanying discussion. New examples of disruptive legal technologies, innovation by in-house lawyers, new employers, a new part to introduce new thinking on artificial intelligence, and an overview of the proposed £700 million digitisation of the English courts. New analysis of new jobs for lawyers. -- Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780198796633

xxii, 216 pages : illustrated ; 20 cm