标题:Review of Susskind, R, The Future of Law: Facing the Challenges of Information Technology, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), David Bausor
期刊名称:Digital Technology Law Journal
印刷版ISSN:1442-3197
出版年度:1999
卷号:1
期号:1
出版社:Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Law Institute
摘要:The message of this book is that there is no future for the traditional legal profession if it cannot adapt to the challenge of information technology (`IT'). Susskind is an enthusiastic and innovative advocate of the potential that IT offers for the service that legal professionals can deliver to their clients. While the theoretical premises of the book are relatively underdeveloped, Susskind convincingly seeks to persuade lawyers to use IT to streamline their practices and so reinvent themselves as more general `legal information professionals'. I would particularly recommend this book to those lawyers who are seeking to implement and develop IT in practice