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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big Law partner here:  at least in the near term, I think AI is going to make paralegals more not less important, since you need someone to verify whatever the AI outputs.  Longer-term, it might replace all of us, who knows. Probably will. But one foreseeable medium-term future is a practice dominated by senior attorneys working with paralegals, and the junior/intermediate ranks largely automated away by AI.  From a “will I have a job” perspective, paralegal seems to me as good a bet as any, particularly since you don’t need to incur massive loan debt like many lawyers do to take a shot at it. [/quote]

Your medium term scenario doesn’t make much sense.  Who is going to replace senior attorneys when they retire if there are no junior ones waiting in the wings [/quote]

Who knows?  Since when have law firms ever been good at succession planning? If this scenario were to come to pass, the senior lawyers would likely be making way too much money to care, and what happens after their retirement is someone else's problem. [/quote]

Can someone explain how this works? I thought a partner is an owner of the law firm similar to a shareholder in a company.  Do they get bought out when they retire? If so, they are interested in the firm doing well beyond their retirement [/quote]

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