Lawyer 3.0: A Guide to Next-Wave Lawyering

by Ray Brescia

Overview

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing will transform all sectors of the economy, including the legal profession. But technology has dramatically impacted lawyers before. In this book, author Ray Brescia shows how the new technologies of the late 19th century spurred the emergence of a new “version” of the profession, but one that was largely inaccessible to too many consumers.

Today, new technologies are creating an even newer version of the profession—Lawyer 3.0—that could be more affordable and effective than the one that currently exists. This work not only describes this phenomenon but shows how lawyers cannot just survive but thrive in this new reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529243253
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	11/18/2025
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Raymond H. Brescia is Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life and Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology at Albany Law School.

Table of Contents

1. Lawyers on the Cusp of Disruption

2. The Job of the Lawyer

3. How Lawyers Work

4. The New Legal Tech

5. Understanding Clients: Their Job to Be Done

6. Information-Based Assistance

7. The Benefits, and Risks, of Limited Services

8. Full-Service, the Lawyer 3.0 Way

9. Teaching to the Tech

10. Ushering in the Lawyer 3.0 World

Editorial Reviews

‘A must-read. An astute explanation of how technology is quickly transforming law—not just for lawyers, but for the millions of people lawyers are currently failing to serve.’ James Sandman, University of Pennsylvania

'A clear vision of where the legal profession is headed in this era of massive economic and technological disruption, and a road map for lawyers, clients, and educators trying to manage the journey. When it comes to lawyers and what they do and clients and what they need, it is a timely and much-needed synthesis of the specific and the systematic.' Michael Madison, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

'Brescia’s latest work reinforces his reputation as a shrewd, well-informed, and insightful analyst of the most relevant modern trends in the legal profession.' Daniel B. Rodriguez, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

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