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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by stale2002 on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:06PM (#16840705)
Lawyers can't be literally replaced by robots.

No, what will instead happen is that a lawyer will be given tools that will allow them to be 100% more efficient on their own, thereby reducing the available jobs by 50%.

Even something as simple as improved search tools makes researching much quicker, which is an important part of their job.

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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:08PM (#16840711)
That’s one way it could play out. Another way is that these tools that make lawyers more efficient increase the amount of legal work that takes place unnecessarily, extracting more dollars from the economy that the profession otherwise would.
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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by haihaibye on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:20PM (#16840973)
You might like this essay:

http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...

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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by toomuchtodo on Saturday April 14, 2018 @11:57PM (#16841113)
Loved the essay! Thank you for sharing!
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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by droidist2 on Saturday April 14, 2018 @10:27PM (#16840775)
Maybe the courts won't be so backlogged, and public defenders so overworked, and we could give more people fair trials instead of pushing so hard for a guilty plea.
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Re:Students being prepared for jobs that no longer exist – h... by roywiggins on Sunday April 15, 2018 @01:50AM (#16841441)
They can always just cut public funding more and restore the status quo. It's not like their current lack of funds is because we are literally out of money, it's because they're not a priority.
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