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To be fair if legal paperwork follows a standard process with standard information, a "robot" can complete many orders of magnitude more than any human lawyer. (I'm also not a lawyer and have no idea if this line of thinking is applicable.)

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Honestly most lawyers (that I know at least) just keep templates of most common documents and fill in the blanks as needed

For basic stuff this is 95% of the end product

I guarantee it’s going to be impossible to compete as a lawyer in most fields without doing most of the work with LLMs, probably within a few years.

I expect the benefits of increased efficiency will be seen as temporarily zeroed inflation for legal services (prices actually going down? LOL) and a bunch of rents, forever (more or less, from the perspective of a human lifetime) to whichever one or two companies monopolize the relevant feature sets (see also: the situation with digital access to legal documents). Lawyers will be more productive but I expect comp will stay about the same.

And I think that as someone fairly pessimistic about the whole AI thing.

And 95% of a doctor's job is just saying "your checkup looks OK Joe, just try to get some exercise and eat more fiber".

And the other 4.99% they do that anyways, in my experience.

Tbf it's almost always applicable. Get more rest, drink more water, exercise and have a better diet, is universally good advice.

I agree that would be a valuable proposition were it to be true (no idea, IANALE). But what I found impressive was the claim that said "robot" could do it even more similar to a human's work than a human lawyer could!

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