AI already is "way better" than junior human lawyers in many areas
By HK Lawyer AJ Halkes Barrister-at-Law
This is the harsh truth: “You have law firms that are currently not wanting to hire junior lawyers because, well, the AI is way better than a junior lawyer who has just graduated from law school.”
Not my words, but they could be, and AI expert Tristan Harris is right about how “way better” AI already is than junior human lawyers in many areas. So maybe it is time to stop training people to just memorise laws, and instead start training amazing strategists, passionate advocates, and effective orators. We also need to teach lateral thinking and persuasion skills at law schools, as we will not beat AI at “black letter law”.
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The legal world of precedents, statutes and legislation lends itself to technological dominance over humans. Systems can already predict basic outcomes, parse elements of offences, consider and reference evidence and draft structured reasoning in seconds. Does this mean that in some cases even courts or judges are not needed, where an algorithm can do just as well, or better, cheaper and faster? What role is left?
“My hands are tied” is shorthand for a court obliged to act according to binding cases, making a decision that may even look or feel wrong. But then what? If the client cannot afford an appeal, that decision layers itself on top of another decision (a precedent), until someone with a large budget or a reason to fight all the way upward finally gets to a higher court to refine or clearly state things.
Many decisions that follow precedent could just as easily be made by an algorithm in a few seconds, so a judge whose job is to apply established precedent to undisputed facts may be out of work in a few years; it’s not only paralegals and aspiring young lawyers at the start of their careers who may lack a future because of AI.
I’m not going to be popular for saying this but lawyers being replaced by a LLM is and it must be the future where “the AI is way better”!
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