As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
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As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
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A_D_E_P_T · · focus · HN ↗
Legal work in the past involved hiring specialist firms, at exorbitant rates, for specialist work. (And virtually all legal work is specialized.)
Legal work in the future might involve hiring one or two in-house lawyers to handle all work, at a standard salary rate. The crucial skills are simply editing and research. Current/near-future LLMs surpass virtually all specialists in domain knowledge and they do it quickly and for the cost of a few cheap subscriptions.
You only really need a lawyer because a business can't represent itself in court without one.