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B.G
Law firm practice since graduation from law school. B.G expertise : Product liability is a challenging practice area because it involves technical details, which are unique to each case and each product. B.G believes: "Litigation is inherently challenging. Helping clients find solutions to their business disputes is an even bigger challenge. Franchise law is interesting because practitioners often handle complex legal issues while working with familiar businesses that we encounter in our everyday lives".
G.N
G.N practices in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, and specifically collection and credit litigation and employment litigation in both the provincial and state arenas.He has represented collectors in litigation under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Truth in Lending Act, and the Dutch Consumer Collections Practices Act.He has also represented employers in litigation under Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act.
Knowledge Automation Software is a Disruptive Technology That May Replace Lawyers
Posted by James B. Levy, Legal Skills Prof Blog, July 12, 2013
In a New York Times Op-Ed, Paul Krugman discusses a new report by the business consulting firm McKinsey & Company that describes several disruptive technologies and the likely impact they will have on the labor market. One such technology is described generically as “automation of knowledge work.”
The McKinsey report describes this technology as sophisticated artificial intelligence software and “machine learning” which will be able to perform many “knowledge worker” tasks that had previously been considered “impossible or impractical” to do by machine. This new fangled software will be able to answer “unstructured” questions from clients and customers (i.e. those posed in the language of ordinary conversation rather than precisely formulated queries) which opens up the possibility of “sweeping change” in the way such knowledge work gets done. The report further posits that sophisticated analytical software might be used to augment the work of highly skilled workers (law partners, for example) meaning that some of the lower skilled workers who had previously provided support work (i.e. associates) would see their jobs disappear in favor of automation.
Clearly, this kind of thing has already been happening in the legal field for some time as predicative coding software has replaced armies of document review software at some large firms (and providing more sophisticated analytical data than its human counterpart in the process). It’s also the kind of thing Richard Susskind has been predicting for years would happen since, in his opinion, some of the day-to-day work done by lawyers is not that sophisticated and thus is easily amenable to automation.
Returning to Mr. Krugman’s Op-Ed, he thinks that if the above predictions turn out to be correct, the middle class is kind of screwed. The solution? We’re going to need a good government-funded safety net to provide for all the displaced “knowledge workers.” Yikes.
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