The End of Lawyers - Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services

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Contents
1.    Introduction-The Beginning of the End
1.1    The challenge for lawyers
1.2    Four thughts
1.3    A journey
1.4    The Future of Law
1.5    Progress over the last decade
1.6    The Flow of this book
2.    The Path to Commoditization
2.1    The evolution of legal service
2.2    The pull of the market
2.3    Opportunities for innovative lawyers
2.4    Some apparent failures explained
2.5    Decomposing and multi-sourcing
2.6    Two case studies
3.    Trends in Technology
3.1    Exponential growth
3.2    Information satisfaction
3.3    Online community
3.4    The Net Generation
3.5    Clicks and mortals
3.6    Disruptive technologies 
4.    Disruptive Legal Technologies
4.1    Automated document assembly
4.2    Relentless connectivity
4.3    The electronic legal marketplace
4.4    E-learning
4.5   Online legal guidance
4.6    Legal open-sourcing
4.7    Closed legal communities
4.8    Workflow and project management
4.9    Embedded legal knowledge
5.    The Future for In-house Lawyers
5.1    The Asymmetry between lawyers and clients
5.2    The Law Firm Grid
5.3    The importance of knowledge systems
5.4    The Client Grid
5.5    Data sharing
5.6    Knowledge sharing
5.7    The challenge for clients
6.    Resolving and Avoiding Disputes
6.1    Reforms and changes
6.2    Decomposing dispute resolution
6.3    From litigation support to electronic disclosure
6.4    Case management and electronig filing
6.5    Courtroom technology and judges
6.6    Online dispute resolution
6.7    Dispute avoidance
7.    Access to Law and to Justice
7.1    Redfining Access to justice
7.2    The building blocks of access to justice
7.3    The empowered citizen
7.4    Streamlined law firms
7.5    A healthy thid sector
7.6    Entrepreneurial alternative poviders
7.7    Accessible legal information systems
7.8    Enlightened public information policy
8.    Conclusion - the Future of Lawyers
8.1    The prognosis
8.2    The implications
Bibliography
Index
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