Cover --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Dedication --
Preface --
Contents --
Introduction --
Part One 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 Two 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, IT, Virtual Courts, and ODR --
Part Three Prospects for Young Lawyers --
11. New Jobs for Lawyers. 12. Who Will Employ Young Lawyers? --
13. Training Lawyers for What? --
14. Replacing the Old Training Ground --
15. Questions to Ask Employers --
16. The Long Term --
Further Reading --
Index.

Tomorrow's Lawyers predicts fundamental and irreversible changes in the world of law. For Richard Susskind, best-selling author of The End of Lawyers?, the future of legal service will be neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, it will be a world of virtual courts, Internet-based global legal businesses, online document production, commoditized service, legal process outsourcing, and web-based simulated practice. Legal markets will be liberalized, with new jobs forlawyers and new employers too. This book is a definitive guide to this future - for young and aspiring lawyers, and for all who want to modernize our legal and justice systems. It introduces the new legal landscape and offers practical guidance for those who intend to build careers and businesses in law. Tomorrow's Lawyers is divided into three parts. The first is an updated restatement of Richard Susskind's views on the future of legal services, as laid out in his previous bestselling works, The Future of Law, Transforming the Law, and The End of Lawyers?. He identifies the key drivers of change, such as the economic downturn, and considers how these will impact on the legal marketplace. In the second part, Susskind sketches out the new legal landscape as hepredicts it, including the changing role of law firms, and in-house lawyers, and the coming of virtual hearings and online dispute resolution. The third part focuses on the prospects for aspiring lawyers, predicting what new jobs and new employers there will be, and equipping prospective lawyers with penetrating questions to put totheir current and future employers. This is the essential introduction to the future of law for those who want to succeed in the rapidly changing legal landscape.