With the benefit of hindsight, it would be easy to view much of Professor Richard Susskind’s work – identifying and voicing emerging industry trends – as stating the obvious.
But his predictions, as expressed in his first book, The Future of Law, actually predated the emergence of those trends by several years. Susskind can be credited, if not with actually creating the phenomenal uptake of information technology by law firms over
the past two years, at least with having helped to accelerate the process.
