Top business lawyers have played down talk that increasing commoditisation and use of IT will bring about the death of the industry, following claims made by leading technology expert Richard Susskind (pictured left).
The predictions come in Susskind’s new book, The End of Lawyers?, in which he says the legal profession needs to undergo a significant transformation to avoid extinction. He argues that lawyers need to ask themselves what elements of their workload could be undertaken more cheaply and efficiently as “the market is unlikely to tolerate expensive lawyers” for work that can be better done by “smart systems and processes”.
