The author of this post claims that the Internet happened, enabling easier, cheaper access to law databases, which increased the value that "top tier" lawyers c

The author of this post claims that the Internet happened, enabling easier, cheaper access to law databases, which increased the value that "top tier" lawyers could extract from their paralegals. > What happened? Well, if you’re an elite lawyer in the modern age, you probably command a large team of lower-tier lawyers, cheap paralegals, and so on, who are very good at using the Internet to look up case law and draft your opinions and so on. In contrast, if you’re an elite lawyer in the year 1990, it’s much more valuable for you specifically to have an encyclopedic knowledge of all the relevant case law, and it’s much harder for you to delegate modular pieces of work off to less competent people.