Richard Susskind’s Wake-Up Call: The Future of Law Is About Outcomes – and Lawise Is Already There
At this year’s ClioCon 2025, legal tech visionary Richard Susskind delivered a keynote that many described as shocking.
His central message:
“Nobody wants a drill. They want a hole in the wall.”
Translated to the legal world:
Nobody wants to pay for legal work – they want fast, sensible, and affordable solutions.
Susskind presented six possible AI futures for the legal profession.
The comfortable scenario – that AI will plateau after a few improvements – is, according to him, the least likely.
Instead, we must prepare for AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) by 2030–2035.
That’s five to ten years – not decades.
While many still debate whether ChatGPT is “ready for legal,” AI’s capabilities are growing exponentially.
Susskind asked the key question:
“Not: What is the future of lawyers?
But: How will people solve problems for which lawyers are currently the best answer?”
This is exactly where Lawise comes in
Lawise.ai builds systems that deliver legal outcomes, not billable hours.
With Jurilo, users can ask their question in plain language and get a lawyer-verified answer within seconds – faster, cheaper, and fully compliant with the Swiss Code of Obligations and the EU AI Act.
While many law firms are still trying to add AI to old workflows, Lawise has built a verified legal AI platform from the ground up – combining lawyers, data scientists, and engineers to make Swiss law machine-readable and explainable.
From Automation to Elimination
Susskind describes three stages of transformation:
1️⃣ Automation – doing today’s work faster
2️⃣ Innovation – delivering outcomes in new ways
3️⃣ Elimination – preventing legal problems before they arise
Lawise covers all three:
- Automation: routine questions answered in seconds
- Innovation: Jurilo as an integrated legal assistant for SMEs, HR teams, and fiduciaries
- Elimination: risk prevention through instant legal clarity
The Choice for the Future
Susskind put it bluntly:
“Failure to prepare for AGI is a dereliction of professional duty.”
The winners will not be traditional lawyers but legal knowledge engineers – exactly the kind of professionals working at Lawise.
In short:
Lawise doesn’t automate lawyers – it delivers legal outcomes, instantly and reliably.
The future Susskind predicts for 2035 is already reality in Switzerland. 🇨🇭
