Now available in a paperback edition, law and technology guru Richard Susskind, author of bestsellingThe Future of Law, brings together in one volume eleven significant essays on the application of IT to legal practice and the administration of justice, including key topics such as knowledge management and the impact of electronic commerce and electronic government. This edition includes a new Preface, in which Susskind puts forward his views on the burst of the dotcom bubble, offers an extension to his Grid to cover in-house lawyers, and comments on the next big things in this area: e-learning, document assembly, online dispute resolution, e-mail management, and matter-centric systems.
Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Part I: Legal Service in the New Economy 1: Legal Electronic Commerce 2: The Client Service Chain Part II: The Future Of Law 3: The Future of Law Summarized 4: The Future of Legal Practice 5: The Likely and the Possible 6: A Response to Critics Part III: Expert Systems in Law 7: An Introduction to Expert Systems in Law 8: A Jurisprudential Approach to Expert Systems in Law 9: Expert Systems in Law: From Theory into Practice 10: An Early Case Study in Packaging the Law PART IV: IT in the Justice System 11: IT in the English Civil Justice System 12: The Electronic Pillars of Justice 13: The Computer Judge: Early Thoughts Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Part I: Legal Service in the New Economy 1. Legal Electronic Commerce 2. The Client Service Chain Part II: The Future Of Law 3. The Future of Law Summarized 4. The Future of Legal Practice 5. The Likely and the Possible 6. A Response to Critics Part III: Expert Systems in Law 7. An Introduction to Expert Systems in Law 8. A Jurisprudential Approach to Expert Systems in Law 9. Expert Systems in Law: From Theory into Practice 1l3(