Subjects:

Information Technology Law

Contents:

New substantial preface

PART I: THE CURRENT REALITIES

1. The Poverty of Law

2. The Power of IT

PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE LAW

3. The Leading Applications

4. The Crucial Enabling Techniques

5. Technical Assumptions

PART III: THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON THE LAW

6. The Law as an Information System

7. Business Process Re-engineering and the Law

PART IV: THE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES

8. Thinking Strategically

9. Cultivating the Culture

10. Assessing the Costs and Benefits

PART V: THE FUTURE

11. Changing Legal Education and Training

12. Lawyers and the Legal Service of Tomorrow

This edition makes Susskind's highly-acclaimed and best-selling book available in paperback, and includes a new and substantial preface by the author. His book demonstrates why the future of the law is digital. It shows why and how IT is radically altering and will alter further 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 focused on 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 explores the implications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the information society as it irrevocably changes how law will be practised and justice administered.;In this paperback edition, the author provides a substantial new preface which develops many of his central themes and takes account of likely developments in technology.

The message for lawyers remains a stark one: in order to guarantee a stake in the legal system of the future, lawyers must adapt their working practices or die. The message for everyone else is an empowering one: they can now demand radically improved legal services, and if lawyers cannot provide this, many others will.