As a lawyer, I look forward to that brief period of automated income! But seriously, I think that there will always be a role for advice on novel issues, and go

As a lawyer, I look forward to that brief period of automated income! But seriously, I think that there will always be a role for advice on novel issues, and good lawyers prefer to be in that niche rather than spending all our time mastering the ins and outs of Word macros. The problem is that people look to corporate lawyers for two very different services -- legal advice, and business process. Legal advice is very difficult, and I would argue, impossible to automate. Business process can and should be automated. It does not make sense to rely on highly trained humans for routine business process.