Re:The Dead Economy Theory
by nradov on Saturday May 30, 2026 @02:25PM
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Actually there is effectively infinite demand for legal services, in the same way that there is effectively infinite demand for software. In highly regulated industries like healthcare we're constantly backlogged on legal capacity. It's not just "cases" but contract review, sales negotiations, customer documentation, regulatory affairs, civil enforcement activities, etc. Current LLMs are helpful for basic tasks like preliminary legal research and drafting documents but they still make frequent errors and can't carry out complex workflows lasting months that depend on high-context human relationships. Better automation would be a huge unlock to accelerate these business activities.
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I will disagree with that from experience. I'm from a small (under a million) country with a surplus of lawyers... it's corrupted them in the sense that there's not enough work around to make money from being efficient, so they legendarily drag out the cases they can, and there's near-monthly trials of cases of theft from trust accounts. So, no "actually".
Again the business demand for legal services has little to do with "cases" as such. Your experience is irrelevant and you're probably ignorant about how business and the legal/regulatory system works in the USA. The vast majority of work done by corporate counsel never has anything to do with trials. The real world isn't like what you see in TV legal dramas.