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Improving access to legal expertise is one of the best applications of GenAI I've heard of, especially considering the cost of a lawyer in the USA. However, a legal professional I spoke with at the Generative AI Summit last week raised an interesting point: the first several years of a (human) lawyer's career is spent doing rote tasks, before they are considered experienced enough to tackle more specialist cases. By automating the "basics", we remove this traditional learning path, potentially making it more difficult to become a lawyer, which could make accessing legal services even harder. If we could automate all legal proceedings at all levels then this problem is irrelevant, but until this is possible perhaps the legal sector should be preparing to adapt the route into their profession.

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The less lawyers in the world the better

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