Will lawyers be replaced by robots?

"There's a romantic notion of AI being able to replace all lawyers," he said. "I don't see that as something that will happen in the next couple of years." Arruda of ROSS Intelligence is even more optimistic, believing that AI will increase the total number of jobs in the legal profession. read more

But recent research and even the people working on the software meant to automate legal work say the adoption of A.I. in law firms will be a slow, task-by-task process. In other words, like it or not, a robot is not about to replace your lawyer. read more

Bechor of LawGeex said that the current lack of widespread adoption of AI by law firms has the effect of keeping prices high in the legal sector, for now. "There is a cost to this inefficiency," Bechor said. read more

The practice of law will become more efficient, automated and competitive, especially the basic activity that most lawyers spend the bulk of their time on, which is drafting and reviewing documents and searching for relevant laws, precedents, cases, etc. read more