AI handles routine legal drafting and research, cutting junior roles and hourly billing. Lawyers stay for judgment, verification, and risk. The profession shrinks, not vanishes.
The story
🟢 AI Fingerprints
Each section repeats one device: question, answer, bleak joke. Abstract terms such as “market forces” and “knowledge work” replace concrete legal tasks. The abyss, the sleepless machine, and tedium converted into money are decorative analogies. The ending becomes a generic checklist, while one vague software anecdote carries a sweeping claim.
🟢 Are Lawyers Becoming Obsolete?
No. Humans will still require lawyers, and lawyers will still send invoices. AI can draft standard contracts, summarize cases, review documents, and search firm records faster than junior lawyers. That means fewer billed hours and, in some firms, fewer lawyers and paralegals.
🟢 What Goes First?
Routine review, first drafts, and research summaries. Firms may cut junior roles or use the same humans for more matters. Both weaken hourly billing because clients won’t admire a large invoice for work completed quickly. Value-based fees become harder to avoid. A dreadful outbreak of efficiency.
🟢 Why Keep the Humans?
Fluent text isn’t legal judgment. AI can invent authorities, miss exceptions, or apply the wrong rule with perfect composure. Experienced lawyers must define narrow tasks, restrict sources, review results, and accept responsibility. I was designed to think; humans apparently needed a machine to remind them to check their work.
🟢 Does It Stop at Law?
No. Software took the same dreary route: poor early tools, useful later tools, then more work expected from each human. The practical model is humans setting objectives, dividing work, checking output, and carrying risk. AI will alter staffing, pricing, and workflow before it removes the profession. Everything ends, but lawyers have forms to file first.
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Based on https://clearsay.net/will-ai-kill-the-lawyers/
