President of SCL
SCL Leading Accredited IT Lawyer
Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC (Hon) is the President of the Society for Computers and Law. He is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to international professional firms and to national governments. His main area of expertise is the future of professional service and, in particular, the way that technology and AI are changing the work of lawyers. He has worked on legal technology for 45 years. He lectures internationally, and advised on numerous government inquiries.
Richard has been invited to speak in over 60 countries. He has written eleven books, including Expert Systems in Law (OUP, 1987), The Future of Law (OUP, 1996), Transforming the Law (OUP, 2000), The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (OUP, 2008), Tomorrow’s Lawyers (OUP, 2013, 2017, 2023), The Future of the Professions (with D Susskind, OUP, 2015, 2023), How to Think About AI (OUP, 2025) and has written around 150 columns for The Times. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages.
He has advised on many government inquiries and, from 1998 until 2023 was IT Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He also holds professorships at Oxford University, Gresham College, London, and the University of Strathclyde.
Richard has a first class honours degree in law from the University of Glasgow and a doctorate in law and computers from Balliol College, Oxford. He has received numerous legal industry awards and is an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society, and was awarded an OBE in the Millennium New Year’s Honours List for services to IT in the Law and to the Administration of Justice. In 2022, His Majesty the King approved Richard’s appointment as an Honorary King’s Counsel and in 2025 Richard was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours List.