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THE FUTURE OF LAWYERS FROM DENIAL TO DISRUPTION

THE FUTURE OF LAWYERS FROM DENIAL TO DISRUPTION. RICHARD SUSSKIND 2 May 2014 @richardsusskind. 3 old chestnuts 3 drivers 3 developments 3 stages 3 challenges. 3 old chestnuts. automation vs innovation. 3 drivers. more for less liberalisation technology. more for less. decomposing.

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THE FUTURE OF LAWYERS FROM DENIAL TO DISRUPTION

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  1. THE FUTURE OF LAWYERSFROM DENIAL TO DISRUPTION RICHARD SUSSKIND 2 May 2014 @richardsusskind

  2. 3 old chestnuts 3 drivers 3 developments 3 stages 3 challenges

  3. 3 old chestnuts

  4. automation vs innovation

  5. 3 drivers

  6. more for lessliberalisationtechnology

  7. morefor less

  8. decomposing

  9. in-sourcing de-lawyering relocating off-shoring outsourcing sub-contracting co-sourcing near-shoring leasing home-sourcing open-sourcing crowd-sourcing computerising solo-sourcing KM-sourcing no-sourcing Multi-sourcing

  10. 13 disruptive legal technologies • Automated document assembly • Relentless connectivity • Electronic legal marketplace • E-learning • Online legal guidance • Legal open-sourcing • Closed client communities • Workflow and project management • Embedded legal knowledge • Online dispute resolution (ODR) • Intelligent legal search • Big data • AI-based problem solving

  11. 3 developments

  12. exponential growthsmart systemssocial media

  13. Moore’s Law

  14. by 2020 and 2050

  15. 5 billion mobile phone subscriptions

  16. 1980s – rule-based expert systems 1990s – knowledge management 2000s – Google etc 2010s – intelligent search, big data 2020s – 2nd generation AI

  17. not modelled on brains fuelled by brute force computing ‘big know-how’ as well as ‘big data’ speech recognition natural language processing perfect search machine learning deductive, inductive, analogical, lateral inference

  18. bespoke human service – exceptional interacting with systems as though human diagnostic-advisory planning document production intelligent search embedded AI-enabled ODR smart more than hard-wired, underpinned by communities of legal experience

  19. irrational rejectionism

  20. communities of legal experience

  21. there is no finishing line in IT

  22. 3 stages

  23. 3 challenges

  24. for law firms

  25. what parts of your work could be undertaken differently – more quickly, cheaply, efficiently, or to a higher quality - using alternative methods of working?

  26. for law schools

  27. what are we training young lawyers to become?

  28. for clients

  29. The Shareholder Test

  30. richard@susskind.com@richardsusskind

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