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The future of lawyers

10 Dec 2008 By Nick Holmes FreeLegalWeb

From my review of The End of Lawyers?:

Susskind sees improved access to justice being achieved with the following building blocks:

  • the empowered citizen – using the web to recognise when they have a legal problem, select an appropriate service provider and obtain service
  • streamlined law firmsĀ  – who have decomposed their work and multi-sourced as described above
  • a healthy third sector
  • entrepreneurial alternative providers – who will find new and improved ways of delivering conventional legal services (encouraged, particularly, by the Legal Services Act)
  • accessible legal information systems, and
  • enlightened public information policy

(cue FreeLegalWeb).

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