Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to your Future, 3rd Edition by Richard Susskind | 2023

Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to your Future, 3rd Edition by Richard Susskind | 2023

• Explores the pressing questions emerging across the legal world about what the future of the profession may look like.
• Covers every part of the legal ecosystem—including law firms, in-house teams, alternative legal service providers, the judiciary and courts, legal education, legal technologists, startups, and issues surrounding access to justice.
  
• Forecasts that the next twenty years will bring more transformation to the legal field than the previous two hundred.
  
• Written with clarity and authority by one of the world’s foremost experts on the future of legal services, drawing on four decades of experience.

New in this edition:

• Significantly expanded with up-to-date coverage of the rapidly evolving technology landscape.
  
• Features new chapters on COVID-19’s impact on the legal sector, developments in legal innovation, the rise of lawtech startups, and a new framework for understanding legal technology.

The first and second editions of Tomorrow’s Lawyers became international bestsellers, widely read and referenced by both practitioners and students. This third edition turns its attention to the legal profession in the 2020s.

According to Richard Susskind, the future of legal services will look nothing like the courtroom dramas of Grisham or the traditional world of Rumpole. Instead, he envisions a landscape shaped by online courts, global AI-driven legal enterprises, disruptive technologies, deregulated markets, commoditized services, alternative delivery models, metaverse-based simulated practice, and entirely new categories of legal work.

This edition serves as a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to that future—ideal for aspiring lawyers and anyone seeking to modernize and transform legal and justice systems. It provides practical advice for building successful careers and businesses in a rapidly changing field.

Written during a period of unprecedented technological progress, the book issues a clear and urgent challenge: to reject the notion that law is immune to innovation; to confront the rising unaffordability and inaccessibility of legal services; and to encourage the next generation of lawyers to leverage technology to improve—and potentially reinvent—how legal and court services are delivered.

Tomorrow’s Lawyers highlights emerging opportunities, new ways to serve clients and communities, and the need to design the systems that will replace outdated legal practices. It argues that embracing change is not only an opportunity but a responsibility for the lawyers of the future.

A highly recommended read for law students, young and aspiring lawyers, senior practitioners, leaders in legal organizations, and legal educators.

Table of Contents of Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to your Future, 3rd Edition

Introduction
PART ONE: Radical Changes in the Legal Market
1:Three Drivers of Change
2:Impact of the Pandemic
3:Strategies for Success
4:Commoditizing the Law
5:Working Differently
6:Disruptive Legal Technologies
7:The Grid

PART TWO: The New Landscape
8:The Future for Law Firms
9:The Role of In-House Lawyers
10:Lawtech Startups
11:The Timing of the Changes
12:Access to Justice and Online Legal Services
13:Judges, Courts, and Technology
14:Online Courts and Online Dispute Resolution
15:The Future of Law, Revisited

PART THREE: Prospects for Young Lawyers
16:New Jobs for Lawyers
17:Who Will Employ Tomorrow s Lawyers?
18:Training Lawyers for What?
19:Replacing the Old Training Ground
20:Questions to Ask Employers
21:Innovation
22:Artificial Intelligence and the Long Term
Further Reading

About The Author:

Professor Richard Susskind, OBE, serves as President of the Society for Computers and Law. He is also the Special Envoy for Justice and Artificial Intelligence, the founder of Remote Courts Worldwide, and has acted as Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales since 1998.

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