The continuity problem will crop up across lots of disciplines, though. When we automate, we'll probably start out at the lower ends of every discipline, crowding out juniors where they'd normally onboard. That won't be too threatening to senior stakeholders in the discipline, either, so they may let it happen. And then automation will creep its way up the value chain; there'll be strong pressure for it to do so, because with automation making the onramp harder to get onto, there will be an increasing scarcity (and thus increasing profit motive) to climb the value chain.

We, at Doctrine (doctrine.fr), are "automating" the search/discovery/legal monitoring. So, we are disrupting the low-level, groundwork so lawyers can focus on higher level tasks.