http://www.theposselist.com/2009/02/13/contract-attorneys-and-the-changing-legal-landscape/ Your source for news, commentary and trends in the contract legal market Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:29:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.theposselist.com/2009/02/13/contract-attorneys-and-the-changing-legal-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 Trends: the contract attorney market and e-discovery market: status and trends - Part 1, An Overview - The Posse List Tue, 26 May 2009 21:55:06 +0000 http://www.theposselist.com/?p=3433#comment-1199 [...] His best recommendation for 2009 is one we have saying for months: read Richard Susskind’s new book The End of Lawyers? and familiarize yourself with the two biggest influences on the legal profession Susskind mentions:  commoditization and information technology and the way they will disrupt and change the profession, faster than we expect.  For our posts on Susskind click here and click here. [...] [...] His best recommendation for 2009 is one we have saying for months: read Richard Susskind’s new book The End of Lawyers? and familiarize yourself with the two biggest influences on the legal profession Susskind mentions:  commoditization and information technology and the way they will disrupt and change the profession, faster than we expect.  For our posts on Susskind click here and click here. [...]

]]> http://www.theposselist.com/2009/02/13/contract-attorneys-and-the-changing-legal-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-975 Follow-up to ABA TechShow: Susskind’s words seem to ring true — BigBusiness is dumping BigLaw - The Posse List Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:14:56 +0000 http://www.theposselist.com/?p=3433#comment-975 [...] We covered Richard Susskind’s speech at the ABA TechShow (click here) and we had previously covered his thoughts in our “Changing Legal Landscape” series (click here). [...] [...] We covered Richard Susskind’s speech at the ABA TechShow (click here) and we had previously covered his thoughts in our “Changing Legal Landscape” series (click here). [...]

]]> http://www.theposselist.com/2009/02/13/contract-attorneys-and-the-changing-legal-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-822 The contract attorney market: status, trends and outlook (Part 1) - The Posse List Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:33:02 +0000 http://www.theposselist.com/?p=3433#comment-822 [...] of Legal Services who we profiled in an earlier post when we examined the changing legal landscape (click here).   He was the keynote speaker today at the ABA TechShow in Chicago and we’ll have a report [...] [...] of Legal Services who we profiled in an earlier post when we examined the changing legal landscape (click here).   He was the keynote speaker today at the ABA TechShow in Chicago and we’ll have a report [...]

]]> http://www.theposselist.com/2009/02/13/contract-attorneys-and-the-changing-legal-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-814 ABA Techshow 2009: How technology has transformed litigation - The Posse List Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:55:59 +0000 http://www.theposselist.com/?p=3433#comment-814 [...] We’ll also hve the chance to speak with the keynote speaker, Professor Richard Susskind, author of  The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services who we profiled in an earlier post (click here). [...] [...] We’ll also hve the chance to speak with the keynote speaker, Professor Richard Susskind, author of  The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services who we profiled in an earlier post (click here). [...]

]]> http://www.theposselist.com/2009/02/13/contract-attorneys-and-the-changing-legal-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Martin Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:26:26 +0000 http://www.theposselist.com/?p=3433#comment-264 The document review contract attorney who does nothing more than put in their hours and go home after managing to review just enough documents to not get fired is going to go away. This kind of attorney is going to be the first casualty of the changes coming to the practice of law whether because of economic choices or the more fundamental disruptive technologies that Richard Susskind describes. The document review contract attorney who does nothing more than put in their hours and go home after managing to review just enough documents to not get fired is going to go away. This kind of attorney is going to be the first casualty of the changes coming to the practice of law whether because of economic choices or the more fundamental disruptive technologies that Richard Susskind describes.

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