Survey sees a considerable drop-off in the number of legal leaders who believe computers could never replace legal professionals.
The industries and jobs most frequently associated with automation and artificial intelligence often fall in the skilled labor arenas—fabrication and assembly, for example. But as artificial intelligence grows smarter, jobs that have historically had a closer affiliation with the humanities may also become fodder for software automation, including man in the legal field.
While we may still be a ways off from robotic litigators, Altman Weil’s 2015 Law Firms in Transition survey indicates that legal leaders increasingly anticipate that work handled by human beings in 2015 will inevitably be handed over to intelligent systems. The survey showed that compared to just four years ago, this expectation has crown considerable.
