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“easiest and most lucrative work” I think this overlooks a big part of how the legal market works. Our easiest work is only lucrative because we use it to trai
by singleshot_ 3y ago
“easiest and most lucrative work”
I think this overlooks a big part of how the legal market works. Our easiest work is only lucrative because we use it to train new lawyers, who bill at a lower rate. To the extent the easy stuff gets automated, 1) it’s going to be impossible to find work as a junior associate and 2) senior attorneys will do the same stuff they did last year. If there’s a decrease in prices for a while, great, but a generation from now it’s going to be a lot harder to find someone knowledgeable because the training pathway will have been destroyed.