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An attorney friend of mine told me that discovery is being affected by this. Instead of having a team of higher level attorneys supervise a team of lower level attorneys (and maybe paralegals also) sorting through tons of papers in discovery, those high level attorneys train an algorithm on what documents are of particular interest from a small subset of them all (creating the training set) and then they let the algo do the work.

An anesthesiologist friend of mine went back and got his MBA because he's certain that machines will dramatically reduce the amount of jobs for anesthesiologists; you'll have one anesthesiologist supervising X machines instead of X anesthesiologists.



Quite true; my wife works in e-discovery and much more of her work is in normalizing messy data sets than doing the discovery itself.


Oh, I'm sure that lawyers will be the last to go. They make the rules, after all.


Are you sure?

    Artificial intelligence was now out-performing the capabilities of junior
    lawyers and paralegals in due diligence, discovery and document drafting.
    Upcoming predictive analytics would be able to assess the outcome of court
    cases while legal diagnostics systems analysed legal problems and provided
    advice.
http://www.afr.com/business/legal/robolawyers-of-the-future-...




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