Overview

This study explains exactly why and how information technology (IT) will radically alter 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 whose focus will be 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 considers the implications, opportunities, and challenges for all concerned in the information society.

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Author:   Richard E. Susskind, OBE
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.669kg
ISBN:  

9780198260073

ISBN 10:   0198260075
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   01 October 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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By far the best book about implications of IT for legal practice and the administration of justice. Lawyers will become information engineers; latent legal markets will be liberated; non-lawyers will have direct access to legal guidance, information and the progress of particular cases; IT will enhance participation in law-making, interdisciplinary professional services, dispute-prevention and risk-management. Susskind, a leading expert, is strikingly optimistic, but tempers his futurology with lawyer-like caution by concentrating on the potential uses of existing technology. Clear, enthusiastic, occasionally mind-blowing, this is a stimulating and accessible book for both lawyers and laypersons. (Kirkus UK)

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Now known as a `technology wizard', Richard E. Susskind is widely acknowledged in the field of computers and the law. He is a Member of the Board of Management and Consultant to Masons Solicitors, and Visiting Professor of IT Law at Stathclyde University.

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