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Dec 2009
1h 24m

The End of Lawyers?

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
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Contributor(s): Richard Susskind | Public figures who were once lawyers or law students will speak about how, if at all, their experience of studying, teaching or practising law has been of value to them in their other careers. Richard Susskind is an independent adviser on information technology. 
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