Well, from what I understand, (aside from the most standard of legal issues which are billed as a flat-rate,) lawyers bill clients at an usually-eye-wateringly-high hourly rate for any work done in the course of working on your case.

Say a new technology allows lawyers to do the same tasks in half the time it used to take them. That sounds like it rhymes with "half the pay for the same work" to me, which might account for some of the new-tech skepticism.

That's my take anyway. I suppose it's similar to the knee-jerk reflex to automation, where you're liable to 'automate yourself our of a job.'