Robots Will Reshape, Not Replace Law
Artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on the legal field. Here’s what areas of law technology will both replace and reshape.
Tedious, mundane tasks in all legal fields will be automized by AI. Specifically, areas of law like tax, estate planning, and family law will be replaced and reshaped by technology. This will save attorneys’ time and client’s money that would’ve been spent on routine paperwork.
1. Divorce and Family Law
We all know that getting a divorce requires tons of paperwork. Attorneys are typically paid to fill out and file paperwork for even the most simple divorce: that’s changing. Divorce-seeking spouses are increasingly choosing online platforms to fill out their uncontested divorce forms through an automized process. These legal services can be cheaper and easier than hiring an attorney. Also, divorcing clients choose to hire an attorney through limited-scope representation. This type of representation means that clients hire attorneys to help with complex aspects of their case, but complete more routine tasks themselves. Innovative legal technologies allow divorcing clients (and attorneys) to automize stacks of paperwork. However, attorneys remain the go-to for spouses in complex divorce or family law matters,
2. Estate Planning
Clients can submit the basic information of how they’d like their will, trust, or other estates to be coordinated. Legal platforms can gather this information and customize wills that fit the client’s needs. However, legal technologies struggle to solve more complex estate planning cases. Attorneys can turn to these legal platforms when forming complex wills or trusts. AI is forming a symbiotic relationship with lawyers in estate planning.
3. Tax Law
Tricky tax scenarios can also be solved by legal technologies. Clients can submit their basic tax information and status to online legal platforms. AI can then recognize legal tax loopholes and calculations that can help clients properly file and same money on their taxes.
AI Can Help Lawyers
It’s a common belief that an attorney’s job is to fill out, review, and file legal document after legal document: that’s partly true. Legal technology can help lawyers automatize such mundane tasks, and also help avoid human errors. It can allow lawyers to spend their time on more important and meaningful strides, like using their time to take on new clients and spending less money on paralegals.
Automating Tedious Tasks
Clients often end up paying their attorneys for countless hours of routine legal tasks. With the rise of legal technology, clients can pay their lawyers to handle more complex tasks, like representing them in court instead of filing conventional paperwork.
Redefining What It Means to Be a Lawyer
Innovations like document automation, online marketing, and other legal technologies are monumental strides in the field of legal practice. These brilliant legal services both empower attorneys and help clients save money. To be successful in the legal field, aspiring and achieving lawyers must adapt to the legal environment reshaped (not replaced) by technology or be consumed by it’s growing market share.
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