Professor Richard Susskind, renowned legal technology specialist from London, England, will answer this and other questions of pressing interest to practicing lawyers when he joins us at ABA TECHSHOW 2009 as keynote speaker.

Professor Susskind has specialized in legal technology for 25 years. During his keynote presentation on Thursday, April 2, he will discuss topics from his latest book, The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (OUP, 2008).  This book examines the effect of advances in information technology on legal practice, analyzing anticipated developments in the next decade. Can the role of the traditional lawyer be sustained in the face of the challenging trends in the legal market and new techniques and technologies for the delivery of services? The answer is important to your future.

An independent adviser to major professional firms and to national governments, Professor Susskind lectures internationally and has been invited to speak in over 40 countries. He has written and edited numerous books, including Expert Systems in Law (OUP, 1987), The Future of Law (OUP, 1996) , Transforming the Law (OUP, 2000) and The Susskind Interviews: Legal Experts in Changing Times (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005) and is a law columnist for T he Times (of London).

Professor Susskind has advised on numerous government inquiries and, since 1998, has been IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England. In 2003, he was appointed by the Cabinet Office as Chair of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information. He holds law professorships at Gresham College in London and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Professor Susskind has a first class honors degree in law from the University of Glasgow and a doctorate in law and computers from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society, and was awarded an OBE in the Millennium New Year's Honours List for services to IT in the Law and to the Administration of Justice.

The insights into the future of your legal practice this phenomenal keynote speaker will bring is just one more reason to mark April 2-4, 2009 on your calendar and start making plans now to attend ABA TECHSHOW 2009.