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5-10 years... "biglawyers" = lamplighters out of work

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Marvelous heaven
  07/18/25
God willing
bearded state
  07/18/25
Inshallah
Marvelous heaven
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chestnut dopamine
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Marvelous heaven
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nickel endimed
Frum Rambunctious Senate Persian
  07/18/25
What happens next though? Clearly we still have lawyers ...
overrated temple
  07/18/25
Interesting point. Here in shitlaw, I have people calling m...
laughsome violet meetinghouse pistol
  07/18/25
What is the bulk of your business
Erotic aqua theater roast beef
  07/18/25
The single biggest area is rural real estate law. Evictions...
laughsome violet meetinghouse pistol
  07/18/25
lol 180
trip chapel
  07/18/25
180
Erotic aqua theater roast beef
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Long TERF War for PeterBoi Poon
  07/19/25
prole squabbles, llp
thirsty crystalline den puppy
  07/18/25
UBI is a must and these gains in income (from LLM technologi...
appetizing massive forum cuckold
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Marvelous heaven
  07/18/25
how about we just have billionaires who "lord" ove...
Slippery Supple Corner Mediation
  07/18/25
Don't count on a 10 year horizon. Get your retirement money ...
burgundy nofapping national security agency
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Marvelous heaven
  07/18/25
I’ve used Lexis and westlaw’s AI. Still not impr...
Irradiated location
  07/18/25
I'm not sure what sort of tools biglaw is using, but AI capa...
arousing amber selfie telephone
  07/18/25
It’s pretty crap right now and often in law there&rsqu...
Coral hideous hunting ground business firm
  07/18/25
Yeah I think this is horseshit cope tbh. Models like o3 pro ...
arousing amber selfie telephone
  07/18/25
It pushes out shit legal work product riddled with hallucina...
Coral hideous hunting ground business firm
  07/18/25
Also, the law isn’t just pure logic or even complex lo...
Coral hideous hunting ground business firm
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Coping fag hello
Coral hideous hunting ground business firm
  07/18/25
You're just wrong about AI capabilities and AI's ability to ...
arousing amber selfie telephone
  07/18/25
Not only that but it basically only has to be good enough to...
Claret bearded parlor really tough guy
  07/18/25
Why don’t you explain why I’m wrong instead of s...
Wang Hernandez
  07/19/25
Just respond to chatgpt and ask it for the pro-legal AI argu...
Gefilte Fish Vindaloo
  07/19/25
Current reality supports the anti-AI argument. AI law produ...
Wang Hernandez
  07/19/25
OP also thought Excel would eliminate accountants
motley queen of the night church building
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Candy Ride
  07/19/25
I wish.
house-broken exhilarant area
  07/18/25
Its barely any better than a google search was 6 years ago. ...
Godawful Opaque Mental Disorder
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Date: July 18th, 2025 4:16 AM
Author: Marvelous heaven



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Date: July 18th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: bearded state

God willing

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Date: July 18th, 2025 4:53 AM
Author: Marvelous heaven

Inshallah

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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:46 PM
Author: chestnut dopamine



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:49 PM
Author: Marvelous heaven



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Date: July 18th, 2025 4:53 AM
Author: Frum Rambunctious Senate Persian

nickel endimed

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Date: July 18th, 2025 6:33 AM
Author: overrated temple

What happens next though?

Clearly we still have lawyers and law firms, but perhaps the firm headcount drops to 10% the current headcount, and AI/software picks up the slack.

In that world, is the firm owned by just a handful of partners? Do law firms start to act like lean software companies? When does a U.S. firm IPO?

The counterpoint btw is that we just do a lot more work that was prohibitively expensive before. For example, I probably see 25+ cease and desist letters for every lawsuit, because letters cost $5-10k and lawsuits cost $100k to initiate and $5M+ to litigate through summary judgment. If cost of litigation drops [80%] people may file many more lawsuits. There could be an analogous dynamic on the corporate/business side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111194)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:00 AM
Author: laughsome violet meetinghouse pistol

Interesting point. Here in shitlaw, I have people calling me virtually every day because their "friend" cheated them out of $300 or something. I tell them it doesn't make financial sense to pursue that and they start crying. There's a big untapped market out there for adjudicating squabbles among proles.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111342)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:28 AM
Author: Erotic aqua theater roast beef

What is the bulk of your business

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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: laughsome violet meetinghouse pistol

The single biggest area is rural real estate law. Evictions, construction disputes, zoning issues. Tons of lawsuits over exactly who owns some piece of land, often with a rotting mobile home sitting on it. Average client expenditure is about $3000, but that varies wildly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111405)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:54 AM
Author: trip chapel

lol 180

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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:15 AM
Author: Erotic aqua theater roast beef

180

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Date: July 19th, 2025 7:10 AM
Author: Long TERF War for PeterBoi Poon ( )



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:19 AM
Author: thirsty crystalline den puppy

prole squabbles, llp

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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:46 AM
Author: appetizing massive forum cuckold

UBI is a must and these gains in income (from LLM technologies)for the technologists or corporations replacing people with chatbots needs to be scrutinized and tracked ASAP to start determining the amount owed to the american citizenry

it's critical

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111414)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:50 PM
Author: Marvelous heaven



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:56 PM
Author: Slippery Supple Corner Mediation

how about we just have billionaires who "lord" over us and poors who you could say serve or maybe "serf" them and then anyone who doesn't go along with this gets to die

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49113524)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:47 AM
Author: burgundy nofapping national security agency

Don't count on a 10 year horizon. Get your retirement money as soon as you fucking can

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111417)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:50 PM
Author: Marvelous heaven



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:50 AM
Author: Irradiated location

I’ve used Lexis and westlaw’s AI. Still not impressed. It helps, it certainly makes us more productive, but major reductions in headcount? Also, everyone keeps saying wait another year. But we’re a couple of years in and the capabilities (at least as applied to law) seem about the same.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111420)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:57 AM
Author: arousing amber selfie telephone

I'm not sure what sort of tools biglaw is using, but AI capabilities have skyrocketed over the past two years and there's no reason that wouldn't apply to law if it applies subjects that are at least as complex.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111435)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Coral hideous hunting ground business firm

It’s pretty crap right now and often in law there’s no objectively correct answer unlike coding or whatever. Here’s a better explanation why law is harder to master for AI than coding.

Coding is governed by strict syntax and deterministic rules. A given input in a programming language will always produce the same output if the code is correct.

• Legal analysis involves ambiguous language, conflicting authorities, policy tradeoffs, and context-sensitive reasoning—skills that require human judgment and real-world understanding.

AI has been trained on massive open-source code repositories like GitHub, with clear labels, documentation, and results. This data is abundant, consistent, and high-quality.

• Legal data is more fragmented:

• Case law is often behind paywalls.

• Court decisions may be long, inconsistent, or involve complex procedural postures.

• Outcomes are not always “correct” or universally agreed upon.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111495)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: arousing amber selfie telephone

Yeah I think this is horseshit cope tbh. Models like o3 pro can absolutely handle textual nuance and complex questions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111500)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Coral hideous hunting ground business firm

It pushes out shit legal work product riddled with hallucinations or misstatements of the law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111526)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Coral hideous hunting ground business firm

Also, the law isn’t just pure logic or even complex logic, unlike coding, there’s no single correct answer to the important questions that get litigated, the legal background is often contradictory and nuanced so you can’t just train it easily.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111634)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 12:04 PM
Author: Coral hideous hunting ground business firm

Coping fag hello

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111710)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 12:10 PM
Author: arousing amber selfie telephone

You're just wrong about AI capabilities and AI's ability to generate responses when there isn't an objectively correct answer, there isn't much else to say. If anything law being subjective bullshit will make it easier to automate. When I deal with ai skeptics these days I mostly just wait for reality to prove them wrong.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111715)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 5:46 PM
Author: Claret bearded parlor really tough guy

Not only that but it basically only has to be good enough to replace paralegals and juniors to have an enormous impact, which it pretty much already has

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49112807)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 7:23 AM
Author: Wang Hernandez

Why don’t you explain why I’m wrong instead of saying “I’m just wrong” with no explanation?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49113912)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 7:26 AM
Author: Gefilte Fish Vindaloo

Just respond to chatgpt and ask it for the pro-legal AI argument to the answer it just gave you

(delete the em dash next time you retard)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49113914)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Wang Hernandez

Current reality supports the anti-AI argument. AI law products are pretty shit for any complex practice.

No doubt that people who rely on making money through teams of 20 paralegals filling out forms and doing rote tasks will change a lot but automating such repetitive thoughtless tasks is entirely different than writing a compelling brief based on nuanced and complex facts in an uncertain area of law.

It most likely will be similar to how word processing eliminated a lot of support positions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49114500)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 9:58 AM
Author: motley queen of the night church building

OP also thought Excel would eliminate accountants

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111438)



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Date: July 19th, 2025 1:33 AM
Author: Candy Ride



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Date: July 18th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: house-broken exhilarant area

I wish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111468)



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Date: July 18th, 2025 12:24 PM
Author: Godawful Opaque Mental Disorder

Its barely any better than a google search was 6 years ago. Add on top that people using it are dumber. All AI is going to do is maybe help the few smart people left do stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5751717&forum_id=2...id#49111741)