In its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an
international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and
students. The third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s.
For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor
Rumpole. Instead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global
legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, liberalized markets,
commoditization, alternative sourcing, simulated practice on the
metaverse, and many new legal jobs.
This volume is a definitive and updated introduction to this future -
for aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize and upgrade our
legal and justice systems. It offers practical guidance for everyone
intending to build careers and businesses in law.
Written in an era of greater technological advance than humanity has
ever witnessed, this work is a call to arms: it challenges those who
feel that the law and lawyers are somehow immune from technological
advance; it draws attention to the unaffordability and inaccessibility
of legal service, for businesses and citizens alike; it invites the next
generation of lawyers to harness the power of technology in improving
and even overhauling the way in which legal and court service is
currently provided.
Tomorrow's Lawyers identifies new opportunities for lawyers, new ways
of helping clients and the community. It enjoins its readers to become
involved in building the systems that will replace outmoded forms of
legal work. It argues that it is both a privilege and an obligation for
tomorrow's lawyers to embrace and bring about change.
A must-read for legal undergraduates, aspiring and young lawyers, senior
practitioners, leaders in law firms and legal businesses, law professors
and law teachers.
