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"IT and the Internet have provided stiff competition for the phone, the ledger, the library, and the filing cabinet, but the substantive work of lawyers has yet to be reconfigured" (R Susskind, The End of Lawyers? (OUP 2010, p 21).
Although technology has been immensely positive to the legal profession, as this essay, will show, it also presents grave challenges to the extent that critics question whether legal profession as we know it will be enabled to survive.
This essay reviews both benefits and threats of technology to the legal profession and concludes that, ominous though some of these disruptive innovative features may seem to the future of the Law, they may be beneficial in that they will force the traditional lawyer to shape himself and thus grow in a dialectical twist of fate, to a new and more progressive future.