The following article is the second installment of a two-part series covering ““The Future of Professions: How Technology is Changing the Way Professionals Work and Provide Services,” the keynote of Vanderbilt Law’s event “Watson, Esq.: Will your Next Lawyer be a Machine?” The speaker was Richard Susskind, a scholar and lecturer focused on how the technology age is changing the work of lawyers.
The views expressed by Susskind can be viewed as controversial, and this controversy isn’t without its history. In 1996, “one of my main preoccupations with electronic communication was e-mail,” Susskind said. At the time, the Law Society in Whales thought he shouldn’t be allowed to speak publicly, as he was bringing the legal profession into disrepute to suggest that legal professionals and clients would be sharing emails together.
