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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, most things can be done with legal zoom and rocket lawyer[/quote]

You clearly have no idea what lawyers do.  Our company spends millions a year for both its legal department and outside counsel who all perform work that can't be done by legal zoom or rocket lawyer.[/quote]

Yeh sure but a lot of work has been automated[/quote]

automation is hurting shitlawyers/solos who do wills and very low end work.  it may ultimately have some impact on biglaw hiring, but probably not very much and may possibly have no real effect.  while the type of bs doc review/basic research done by first year associates can be automated, biglaw still is going to have to hire classes of associates to move up the ranks to do the stuff that cannot be automated.

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Nope, sorry.  The bottom dropping out of the economy has had a big effect on legals spend and big law hiring.  Clients aren't paying for your first years to cut their teeth any more, associate class sizes have shrunk quite a lot, and many law firms are looking at non-associate staffing models, many of which are 1099 arrangements and contract attorneys.  Automation is actually [i]helping [/i]the smaller firms compete with the big firms who are weight down with payroll, lease/infrastructure costs, and more committee bureaucracy that makes them less flexible and harder to retool.  Firms that get the client business side and can effectively price fixed and other alterantive fee arrangements are also beating out big law, when big law can't adjust.  Law is finally having to be run like a business rather than a blank-check for billable hours/services rendered -- look at how many large law firms have folded/imploded in the past five years.  If you think that big law has felt no ill effects of the economy and automation, you are very, very out of touch with the business of law.[/quote]

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