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There's been a lot of speculation as to where the law field as a whole is going, as it coincides with a changing country. Any speculation as to if it's going to change and become streamlined? Or will law become an unchanged field because of it's longlasting relevance?

hbundle wrote:There's been a lot of speculation as to where the law field as a whole is going, as it coincides with a changing country. Any speculation as to if it's going to change and become streamlined? Or will law become an unchanged field because of it's longlasting relevance?

Law will last for a long time because it's difficult to have computers perform the complexity of legal work, not to mention the human element of it. I saw an article on this in some magazine, on the fields that have the highest probability of being computerized and fields that have the lowest probability of being computerized. Law was one of the fields with a low probability of being computerized. However, it's not all a rosy picture, there are some positions being computerized.

I think this is the study: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downlo ... oyment.pdf

p. 17 wrote:Sophisticated algorithms are gradually taking on a number of tasks
performed by paralegals, contract and patent lawyers (Markoff, 2011). More
specifically, law firms now rely on computers that can scan thousands of legal
briefs and precedents to assist in pre-trial research.

p. 41 wrote:For example, we find that paralegals and legal assistants – for which
computers already substitute – in the high risk category. At the same time,
lawyers, which rely on labour input from legal assistants, are in the low risk
category.

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