Lawyers could be the next profession to be replaced by computers
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/17/lawyers-could-be-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence.htmlTechnology is often blamed for destroying traditional working-class jobs in sectors like manufacturing and retail.
But blue collar jobs aren't the only ones at risk.
The legal profession — tradition-bound and labor-heavy — is on the cusp of a transformation in which artificial-intelligence platforms dramatically affect how legal work gets done.
Those platforms will mine documents for evidence that will be useful in litigation, to review and create contracts, raise red flags within companies to identify potential fraud and other misconduct or do legal research and perform due diligence before corporate acquisitions.
Those are all tasks that — for the moment at least — are largely the responsibility of flesh-and-blood attorneys.
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What's the difference between a shark and a legal-bot?
Sharks don't rust!
Not funny. 
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One legal bot to another legal bot.
Your momma was a Commodore!
What do you call 100 computers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start.
I don't know, just doesn't have the same ring.
I don't believe that bots can ever replace humans when it comes to reading documents for context. You can train a bot to scan documents for certain words, names or dates, and they're cheaper and more efficient than humans. But that's not the practice of law, it's just mining documents for data.
Only humans will ever be able to read documents and understand the context, and formulate a theory based on "what's happening here?" and "how does this exonerate my client?" and "how does the law apply to this case?"
It seems to me that legal research will be more computer intensive in the future, so lawyers will be paying less in labor costs for clerical staff. The result will be more money going into the lawyer's pockets since they'll own the computers.
