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Why AI won't replace lawyers
| ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, | 01/14/26 |
| theranchman | 01/14/26 |
| zesty | 01/14/26 |
| Shlomo Dreidlowitz | 01/14/26 |
| ,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.:: | 01/14/26 |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 10:06 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, AI is amazing at certain things. It's obviously going to crush anyone responsible for creating content - copywriters, marketers, graphic designers, etc.
AI is going to cut down the time i have to draft bespoke letters from like 1 hour to 5 minutes.
AI is more generally knowledgeable about law then i am and it takes 5 seconds to spit out a 10 page memo on the subject.
But at the end of the day, AI isn't intelligent. I had mice in my garage - AI knew 1,000x more about the mice than me instantly - it told me the type of mice, how to get rid of them, where to lay the traps. I laid out 3 traps, caught 3 mice the next morning in my garage, and the AI said "these mice live in groups of 3 so you can now rest easy that you caught all the mice."
I re-baited the traps and obviously caught 2 more mice. For whatever reason, the AI favored the logic that they typically live in groups of 3 and made a definitive conclusion based on that.
Similarly, i asked AI to compare two pro formas and explain teh difference in final totals. The AI instantly spit out incredibly intelligent analysis on every aspect of the pro forma. I again asked it to explain the difference, and it spit out this explanation of an incredibly nuanced piece of accounting law and said that explained the difference.
But I knew the quotes on one of the items went up - so I asked it "Didn't it go up because XYZ went up?" And the AI is like, "Yes it did - it went up by X dollars - that explains the price. You're correct." And I ask why it didn't point that out, it just responds, "You're right - I should have pointed that out."
Lawyers are going to be much more efficient, and the 20% of our job that was producing beautiful memos and letters is probably dead.
But LLMs are literally built on just guessing the right answer. Companies are still going to need lawyers to make sure the AI is doing things right. |
Date: January 14th, 2026 10:08 PM Author: theranchman bizarre screed
not a person in the world is suggesting the number of future lawyers will be 0 |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 10:09 PM Author: zesty u sound scared (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822228&forum_id=2most#49590568) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: Shlomo Dreidlowitz The reason AI won't replace lawyers is because law is inherently a rent-seeking profession. For example, if AI made it easy to review a million documents in a litigation, and you only needed one lawyer to review the synopsis generated by AI, then there would suddenly arise a need to review ten million documents in a similar litigation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822228&forum_id=2most#49590572) |
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Date: January 14th, 2026 10:13 PM Author: ,.,.,:,,:,..,:::,...,:,.,.:...:.,:.:: Gemini recently hallucinated hilariously and instantly provably in response to a question I asked about a half remembered short story I read when I was in grade school.
it confidently invented a non-existent Chekhov story, complete with made up plot and characters.
it was so convincing that I googled the Chekhov story and it took me a few minutes to realize it doesn't exist at all. |