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As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

150 points · 162 comments · mooreds

dabinat · 1790566087 · focus · HN ↗
My experience with lawyers is that if you need a legal document, they often have templates ready to go and will take 10 seconds to find & replace your company name into the document. I know this because they often don’t proofread it afterwards. They then charge you $1000 for that 10 seconds of work. Given that I have felt ripped off by many lawyers, I’m totally fine with that industry getting disrupted.
1. tiffanyh · 1790570116 · focus · HN ↗
  Do you have any issues with thr tech industry selling software licenses?
  Because a lawyer selling a contract template, is in many ways, very similar in concept to tech industry selling a software license/seat.
  They are both akin to “templates”, and selling IP.
  1. thayne · 1790571115 · focus · HN ↗
    I think it is more akin to paying a software contractor to make something to meet your specific need, and they give you an off the shelf product (which they may or may not have made themselves).

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