AI Replacing Lawyers

Lawyers don't really control their own supply the way doctors do, which is why there is a great overabundance of people with law degrees in the country. AI has actually been used in a number of legal contexts, like building normalized contracts, or paralegal work. It's also because a lot of the highly paid legal work is pretty hard to automate in the same way, because it requires much more understanding of precedent or other nebulous ways of interpretation that AI isn't suited for

law degree or CS degree no differencemaybe we need a license that will end all leetcode BSyou are wrong that lawyers only work a few hours on a case. they work hundreds of hours on reasonably sized cases if not thousands and the rate is the same

As a Harvard Law School graduate I want to say that the OP is really underestimating the skill set of lawyers, the law is a very difficult field and the suggestion that it is a cartel is a little overblown. Every legal issue is different, no two divorces are the same, no two lawsuits are the same, no two patent disputes are the same. This is why you don't really see a Dreamweaver/Weebly type app for web application development, no two web applications are the same and each one has different need

The field of programming might evolve similarly to the the field of law as time goes on.A lawyer friend told me his field used to be more accessible to everyday people. Anyone could study cases and even learn enough to represent themselves and members of their communities.Law schools and licensing boards were developed to protect the lawyers' wages and prestige, and to insulate them from outside competition.The regulatory hoops did increase lawyers' salaries, but they also mad

You think lawyers haven't been replaced solely because of regulation?

Lawyers won't allow themselves to be replaced even if it makes sense to do so.

(speaking as a software developer) this dramatically underestimates the intelligence of top lawyers relative to average software developers, and also misunderstands the facts of how law works (the subject matter expertose required is still mostly in law rather than in software development).

For any legal startup to work, Lawyers either A) have to really want what he's building or, B) have to have it to be competitive against other firms.I think both of these are pretty high bars, especially since Lawyers bill by the hour.Finding a good efficient lawyer is much more about the Lawyers personality, knowledge, and ability and much less about the technology. A good lawyer can solve things very quickly at little cost. A bad lawyer can take the same matter, spend a ton of mon

Why do you say that about lawyers moreso than software engineers or doctors?

That is more complicated than you might think. In a lot of ways the legal profession is only a semi-functioning market--at least compared to software. On one hand, there are fairly amazing and very longstanding restrictions on how attorneys can market their services. This makes it harder (or outright impossible) for an attorney to market, so that diminishes (but does not eliminate) comparative technical advantage. On the other hand, salaries for most starting attorneys (i.e, associates) are f