I think a lot of the rote gruntwork in the legal process has been automated already. The people that suffered from this are probably the paralegals and lower ti

I think a lot of the rote gruntwork in the legal process has been automated already. The people that suffered from this are probably the paralegals and lower tier entry level lawyers. Once you go beyond that, my (distinctly non-lawyer) experience has been that there is a lot of subjective territory involved. For example, my social circle includes a lot of immigrants. I've seen cases that should have been easy get rejected because they decided to cheap out with the lawyer, or even attempt to do the filing themselves. On the other side, I've seen cases that everyone was expecting to get rejected, pass, because they afforded a good lawyer.