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| Pemalite said: Here is a question... With how much money lawyers earn... Why is he an Uber driver? |
Oh boy people will call me an automation freak.
Anyway:
Lawyers, for example, may conjure up images of formidable debators pontificating in front of grand juries, but the reality is much more mundane.
"The vast majority of activities that lawyers are engaged in are straightforward drafting of contracts, putting together things like apartment leases, real estate deals, pre-trial discovery," Kaplan said. "It's these very tasks that make the profession susceptible to automation."
Startups are already springing up to take on these time-consuming and expensive chores. Kaplan lists just a few of them in his book — Judicata uses statistical methods called machine learning and natural language processing to automatically find relevant court cases.
Fair Document allows users to fill out forms to create documents for, say, estate planning for only $995 — a "service that might otherwise typically cost $3,500 to $5,000," for a lawyer to do.
There's already a huge gap between the small number of law jobs and increasing law school graduates. The New York Times reports 40% of 2014 law school graduates failed to find jobs "that required them to pass the bar exam."
