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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by wodenokoto on Thursday January 29, 2015 @05:09AM (#8965246)
What people seem to misunderstand about steveeg1 comment is that a lot of time at an attorney office is spend sifting through old cases.

Since lawyers bill in hours they either have to raise their hourly bill or lie about the hours spend in order to keep the final price tag the same.

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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by arethuza on Thursday January 29, 2015 @06:27AM (#8965501)
As far as I know, litigators do spend a fair amount of time researching cases as it there job to assemble a case that is capable of being presented in court - although most litigation gets settled before going anywhere near a court.

However, in most law firms I know litigators are in the minority - and I don't think the likes of corporate lawyers spend much time researching cases?

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Re:Ross: Attorney built on top of IBM's Watson by bediger4000 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:37AM (#8966312)
Why should the final price tag remain the same? Free market economics says that if we introduce efficiencies, the price comes down, and/or fewer people produce the same output. In general (exception is music, as far as I can tell) that's the case. Other labor markets have suffered horrible, drastic shake-outs, why not Law?
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