We know that some lawyers are very willing to use LLMs to accelerate their work, because there have been lawyers caught submitting briefs containing confabulated case citations. Probably many other lawyers are using LLMs but are more diligent about checking their output — and thus their LLM use goes undetected.
I wonder if lawyering will have the same pipeline problem as software-engineering: The “grunt work” that has previously been assigned to trainees and juniorprofessionals will be automated early on; thus making it less valuable to hire juniors; thus making it harder for juniors to gain job experience.
(Though the juniors can be given the task of manually checking all the citations …)
It seems likely to me that (at least some) lawyers will have the foresight to see AI getting better and better, and that AI automation won’t just stop at the grunt work and will eventually come from the more high profile jobs.
thus making it less valuable to hire juniors; thus making it harder for juniors to gain job experience.
Yes this seems very likely, I don’t see why this would be limited to SWEs
We know that some lawyers are very willing to use LLMs to accelerate their work, because there have been lawyers caught submitting briefs containing confabulated case citations. Probably many other lawyers are using LLMs but are more diligent about checking their output — and thus their LLM use goes undetected.
I wonder if lawyering will have the same pipeline problem as software-engineering: The “grunt work” that has previously been assigned to trainees and junior professionals will be automated early on; thus making it less valuable to hire juniors; thus making it harder for juniors to gain job experience.
(Though the juniors can be given the task of manually checking all the citations …)
It seems likely to me that (at least some) lawyers will have the foresight to see AI getting better and better, and that AI automation won’t just stop at the grunt work and will eventually come from the more high profile jobs.
Yes this seems very likely, I don’t see why this would be limited to SWEs