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The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services Richard Susskind OBE The End of Lawyers? is the much-anticipated sequel to Richard Susskind's legal best-seller of 1996, The Future of Law. Ten years on, and half-way towards the twenty-year vision he set out, Susskind takes stock of progress, introduces vital new emerging technologies, and envisages even more radical change to the legal world than before.
This is a world in which, at least in part, legal services are commoditized, IT renders conventional legal advice redundant, clients and lawyers are collaborators under the one virtual roof, disputes are dominated by technology if not avoided in the first place, and online systems and services compete with lawyers in providing access to the law and to justice. For the conservative legal adviser, the message is bleak. For the progressive lawyer, an exciting new legal market emerges.
This book continues the author's focus on the effect of advances in information technology upon the law and legal practice, providing fresh perspectives and analysis of anticipated developments in the decade to come. In particular, he aims to explore the extent to which the role of the traditional lawyer can be sustained, in the face of the challenging trends in the legal marketplace and the new techniques and technologies for the delivery of legal services. |
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Legal Office Procedures (5th Edition) Joyce Morton For courses in Legal Office Procedures, Legal Procedures, Introduction to Legal Office Procedures, Legal Secretarial Procedures, Legal Support/Assistant Procedures, and Introduction to Paralegal/Legal Assisting. Designed as a total concepts/applications learning experience, this text presents basic legal concepts in various fields of law, outlines the preparation of documents commonly used in those fields, and provides hands-on examples and projects involving data from actual cases. The approach simplifies a complicated subject into a logical, meaningful course that prepares students for successful careers as law office support staff, and provides instructors with a total instructional program that is both interesting and easy to teach. |
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The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology Richard E. Susskind Written by a leading expert on computers and law, this important new book book shows 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 integrate the law with business and domestic life. This book considers the implications, opportunities, and challenges for all concerned in the information society.
The IT revolution cannot be ignored, and this book is essential reading for all those who would successfuly adapt to the changes and challenges IT brings. |
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Dangerous Law Practice Myths, Lies and Stupidity Judd Kessler, Gunter Enz, Michael Quade, Lawrence Kohn, Albert Barsocchini, Thomas Hauck, Brian Whitaker Discover what myths, lies and stupid things lawyers are told to do when starting, growing, or running a law practice that are a waste of time and money, or even worse, will get you into trouble. Many of the recommended practices are so dangerously out of date that they can put your firm at serious risk. Today s technologies including the Internet, email, and e-discovery are often perilously incompatible with older common knowledge. |
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Computer Law Chris Reed This edition is fully updated to reflect the Digital Economy Act 2010 and changes to consumer protection law at EU level including the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. Analysis of recent case law is also incorporated including, amongst others, the series of trade mark actions against eBay and copyrights suits against Google as well as the implications for IT contracts of BSkyB Ltd v HP Enterprise Services UK Ltd. All chapters have been revised to take into account the rapid evolution of the ways in which we consume, generate, store and exchange information, such as cloud computing, off-shoring and Web 2.0.
Now established as a standard text on computer and information technology law, this book analyses the unique legal problems which arise from computing technology and transactions carried out through the exchange of digital information rather than human interaction. Topics covered range from contractual matters and intellectual property protection to electronic commerce, data protection and liability of internet service providers. Competition law issues are integrated into the various commercial sections as they arise to indicate their interaction with information technology law. |
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The Attorney's Guide To The Microsoft Office System (VertiGuide) Dorian S. Berger, Anthony T. Mann The Microsoft® Office System is the most popular desktop suite of personal productivity tools and technologies. Because the Microsoft Office suite of tools is so comprehensive, it can be challenging for people in certain professions to understand how to use Office to perform tasks specific to their job. This book focuses on the tasks an Attorney performs every day—rather than the all too common software-centric approach that many other technology books habitually adopt. Other Microsoft Office books on the market for the legal profession are often difficult to understand because they largely address an Information Technology (IT) audience, cover too many professions in a single book, or are so large (more than 800 pages) as to be overwhelming. This book was written with attorneys in mind. In fact, this book was developed by consulting and interviewing industry experts, legal trainers, technology experts, paralegals, and of course, attorneys. The authors learned exactly which topics were most troublesome for attorneys, and made sure to explain them thoroughly. This book covers the use of these Microsoft Office System products for Attorneys: -Microsoft® Word 2003 -Microsoft® Excel 2003 -Microsoft® Outlook 2003 -Microsoft® PowerPoint 2003 -Microsoft® OneNote 2003
This book helps Attorneys cut through the hard stuff, and makes Microsoft Office work for them. This book comes with free bonus materials:
-Additional Legal Templates -Advanced Chapters -Keyboard Shortcut References |
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The Lawyer's Guide to Adobe Acrobat David L. Masters Now including information about Acrobat version 7.0 as well as 6.0, this book takes lawyers through the processes of working with PDF documents, allowing them to communicate like never before. They'll learn how to create, control, and more securely deliver intelligent, content-rich documents that can be opened by anyone using Adobe Reader. More and more court systems require electronic filing, and this is the definitive guide to the standard for those filing systems. |
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Effective Knowledge Management for Law Firms Matthew Parsons While there is significant interest in knowledge management as it applies to legal environments, there are very few books specifically focused on this topic. In Effective Knowledge Management For Law Firms, Matthew Parsons expertly fills this gap by drawing on his work with a leading commercial law firm, Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He examines how law firms can implement a knowledge strategy to support their business strategy, rather than getting beguiled by fads and technology. Parsons first outlines the terrain, including what knowledge management means, the business and economics of law firms, and how lawyers work as knowledge workers. He then introduces a methodology for creating and implementing law firm knowledge strategy, which combines for the first time the interrelated aspects of recruiting, training, research, document production, information management, and digital knowledge strategy. Parsons goes beyond theories to provide detailed, practical help for the analysis, implementation, and measurement of performance-increasing initiatives. This book will be an invaluable resource for all those involved with the management and leadership of law firms and knowledge management initiatives. |
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Law on Display: The Digital Transformation of Legal Persuasion and Judgment (Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society) Neal Feigenson, Christina Spiesel Experience the multimedia and view the links featured in the book at lawondisplay.com Visual and multimedia digital technologies are transforming the practice of law: how lawyers construct and argue their cases, present evidence to juries, and communicate with each other. They are also changing how law is disseminated throughout and used by the general public. What are these technologies, how are they used and perceived in the courtroom and in wider culture, and how do they affect legal decision making? In this comprehensive survey and analysis of how new visual technologies are transforming both the practice and culture of American law, Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel explain how, when, and why legal practice moved from a largely words-only environment to one more dependent on and driven by images, and how rapidly developing technologies have further accelerated this change. They discuss older visual technologies, such as videotape evidence, and then current and future uses of visual and multimedia digital technologies, including trial presentation software and interactive multimedia. They also describe how law itself is going online, in the form of virtual courts, cyberjuries, and more, and explore the implications of law’s movement to computer screens. Throughout Law on Display, the authors illustrate their analysis with examples from a wide range of actual trials. |
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Using Computers in the Law Office Brent D. Roper The third edition of Using Computers in the Law Office teaches computer skills to legal assistants in a practical and hands-on manner. The text uses many updated legal specific examples, charts, screen shots, tables, hands-on exercises, step-by-step explanations, case histories and software to make the text easy to use and understand. The latest technologies are covered in depth including a whole new chapter on the Internet/electronic mail, expanded coverage of case management software and descriptions of the latest software and hardware. An expanded ethics section is included in each chapter and a complete chapter on how to prevent creating malpractice with computers is included as well. New case histories have been added throughout the book to emphasize how computer technology is being used to win cases and to practice law more efficiently and effectively. |