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The bombast of 'soon to be extinct' solicitors is sad and amusing, in equal measure. Susskind is right, save only to the extent that his five year time estimate is ludicrously generous.

Law is a social science and like any other pseudo-science (that is to say, any other science which is not Natural Science), it cannot survive in a computer science epoch.

Either you will adapt (ie learn how to code) or you will become perfectly irrelevant in the digital era.

Learn Java, C++, Python or HTML and you might just have a chance of having some value. But if you maintain a professional missionary position, it is game over for you. Lawyers without crazy good IT skills are worthless in the new order. Embrace the horror.

I was in practice for 25 years before I stopped to think about where the profession was ultimately going. Today, I spend my every waking hour learning computer programming.

Enough. It is time for the dinosaurs to make predictable responses. Good day.