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In criminal law the state pays the bills and a hugely disproportionate percentage of senior government officials and politicians are (former) lawyers, so I doubt that their sinecures end any time soon. In commercial/corporate law the profession as a whole is already hugely over staffed and overpaid, the issue is it’s an endless defection game where you have to pay a ton of money to get ‘the best’ lawyers so you don’t get fucked by various sneaky techniques employed by the other side who have ‘the best’ lawyers and so on (both of these lawyers went to the same institutions and are friends and indeed even coworkers on other cases). It’s essentially a tax on commercial activity facilitated via the legal profession.
In many ways a lot of finance is similar, so I sympathize, but the incentives lean against automation as long as the people making the decisions can hand out money to their friends, and that describes an extremely high percentage of PMC jobs in professional services (law, finance, consulting, accounting).
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