The End of Lawyers?
- Posted by Geoffrey G. Gussis on October 25th, 2007
- Filed in News, Weird/Wacky/Funny
Forget Fukuyama, forget history - it appears that our very survival is at stake:
“Richard Susskind argues that that lawyers and the legal profession in their present shape face extinction—or at least are on the brink of fundamental transformation, ” reports the London Times.” (emphasis added)
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November 15th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Certainly some practices of the legal profession may be disappearing while technology is replacing mechanisms and procedures, but the spirit and rationale of the legal profession is more alive than ever and is constantly renewed and also dinamic and grows to apace. The complexity that has reached the modern society requires rely increasingly in specialists in the law and go to them with increasing frequency. Meanwhile, lawyers we can be grateful for the technology that provides us with a growing capacity an increasing ability to act, a wealth of information and networking with almost all parts of the world in real time. I doubt therefore that our profession is coming to an end. On the contrary, I think that we are reaching a point where our involvement is indispensable. Since ancient times, in all cultures, there has been a counselor, an advocate, a prosecutor and a judge. After thousands of years, these characters still exist in many forms and will continue continue to exist forever. (Sarmiento & Du-Pont Law Office in Perú)