Well, let's not forget we're talking about lawyers here, who already work with a versioned single source of truth (The Law).

All I'm asking is that we upgrade their tooling and process.

Your outlook for the abstraction potential seems overly pessimistic.

Most of Law boils down to a cascade of intermingled conditionals, nothing a computer couldn't handle.

Of course a bit of human intervention will always be required, for value judgements and the "hard questions".

However, in my (limited) experience with lawyers, very little of the time and money that a lawsuit consumes goes into the actual decision making.

The overwhelming majority is wasted on process and formalities.