> The paper examines a world people will pay an AI lawyer $500 to write a document instead of paying a human lawyer $500 to write a document. That will never ha

> The paper examines a world people will pay an AI lawyer $500 to write a document instead of paying a human lawyer $500 to write a document. That will never happen. It's an absurd assumption made by AI investors everywhere. They can't handle a world where everyone already has an AI lawyer at home that they trust, that they have because they once paid $100 for it at a kiosk in the mall or pirated it. The real future is an AI lawyer on your keychain and an extreme devaluation of the skill of knowing the law and making legal arguments. Instead, we're going to have a weirder world where you show up to court and the court already has a list of your best legal arguments that they generated completely independent of you, and they largely match the list of arguments that your own AI advisor app gave you. They'll send you messages regarding your best next steps, and if your own device agrees, all you'll have to do is reply 'Y.' For simple document preparation, I'm pretty sure that your phone will be able to handle it, and AI at the point of submission would be able to give you helpful suggestions if the documents were inadequate. LLMs can almost do things of this degree of difficulty reasonably well now. Where will they be (or their successors be) in 10 years? Why do we think they will be as expensive as lawyers, who you have to send to difficult schools for a long time, feed, and flatter?