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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. otterley · 1790571654 · focus · HN ↗
  This reminds me of the parable about the plumber.
  A plumber comes over to repair a broken water heater. He looks at it, taps a pipe with his wrench, and it's fixed. He hands the customer a bill for $500. The customer becomes angry because all the plumber did was tap a pipe, and demands to see an itemized bill.
  The plumber dutifully provides the bill:
  * Pipe tapping: $5
  * Knowing where to tap: $495
  1. analog31 · 1790597660 · focus · HN ↗
    The other version of this joke:
    Customer: $500 for 10 minutes of work? That's more than I make as a brain surgeon.
    Plumber: It's more than I made as a brain surgeon too.

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