I was struck reading a blog post by Crispin Passmore (late of the SRA and LSB), Utah turns US reform party into a carnival. The Utah Bar and Supreme Court thoroughly investigated ways of increasing access to justice through
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Why Law Firms Must Change How They Work (or do they?)
The Financial Times has published an article with this title (£). It’s a bit of a strange piece, and a number of the commenters agree.The gist of the piece is that unless big law firms change their ways of working–long hours,
Blockchain and Standards: is it impossible?
Adrian McCullagh and I have put up a new paper on SSRN, titled, Blockchain’s Future: Can the Decentralised Blockchain Community Succeed in Creating Standards? The abstract reads: Nakamoto proposed a new solution to transact value via the internet. And
Rake and Rumpole: Mavericks for Justice
I have put up a new paper on SSRN comparing Rake’s Cleaver Greene and Horace Rumpole of the Bailey. They offer contrasting views of professionalism, among other things. To make sense of this I use Mary Douglas’s ideas of Purity
Legal Professionals of the Future: Their Ethos, Role and Skills
(Thanks to Persuasive Litigator)I have put up a new paper on SSRN titled, “Legal Professionals of the Future: Their Ethos, Role and Skills“. It is part of a new collection being edited by Professor Michele DeStefano and
Barristers' Clerks: The Middlemen of the Law
Years ago, 1983 to be precise, a young and precocious academic published his first book. Barristers’ Clerks: The Law’s Middlemen has had a varied and storied life.As it’s out of print I have let it be downloaded for free from
Are professions merely a set of outcomes? Where Susskind got it wrong.
Richard Susskind has recently published a short paper arguing people don’t want professionals, they want solutions and answers. The paper then criticises professions for being more concerned with themselves than the people they serve. All in all, there is
Professions, Machine Learning, Blockchain…revised
After receiving many kind comments on our paper, “Professions and Expertise: How Machine Learning and Blockchain Are Redesigning the Landscape of Professional Knowledge and Organisation”, I have substantially revised it and put the new version on SSRN. I want