[Editor’s note: If readers pick up a copy of Richard Susskind’s Tomorrow’s Lawyers (2nd ed. 2017) and flip to page 135, they’ll see a table captioned “New jobs for lawyers.” This table is reproduced below. Richard writes, “these are the jobs that flow quite clearly from the arguments and claims of this book.”
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