By Alexandra Newman and Logan Steiner ( May 24, 2018, 6:46 PM EDT) -- What will the legal industry look like in 20 years? Professor Richard Susskind — a lawyer and legal-technology futurist — seeks to answer this question in the second edition of his book "Tomorrow's Lawyers."[1] Susskind argues that three "drivers of change" are converging to create "a perfect storm" that will radically and irreversibly change the way lawyers work.[2] These drivers are (1) the more-for-less challenge (delivering more legal services at less cost); (2) liberalization (relaxing the laws that govern who can offer legal services); and (3) information technology (applying disruptive technologies to transform legal operations).[3] Susskind's book offers a wide-ranging analysis of how these drivers will impact the legal market in upcoming decades....
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