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Lawyers can't be literally replaced by robots. No, what will instead happen is that a lawyer will be given tools that will allow them to be 100% more efficient
by stale2002 9y ago
Lawyers can't be literally replaced by robots.
No, what will instead happen is that a lawyer will be given tools that will allow them to be 100% more efficient on their own, thereby reducing the available jobs by 50%.
Even something as simple as improved search tools makes researching much quicker, which is an important part of their job.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoThat’s one way it could play out. Another way is that these tools that make lawyers more efficient increase the amount of legal work that takes place unnecessarily, extracting more dollars from the economy that the profession otherwise would.
- haihaibye 9y agoYou might like this essay: http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/ImportantThatSoftwareFails.html http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...
- toomuchtodo 9y agoLoved the essay! Thank you for sharing!
- droidist2 9y agoMaybe the courts won't be so backlogged, and public defenders so overworked, and we could give more people fair trials instead of pushing so hard for a guilty plea.
- roywiggins 9y agoThey can always just cut public funding more and restore the status quo. It's not like their current lack of funds is because we are literally out of money, it's because they're not a priority.