Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

[Ian Livingston]

Lawyers are the only social strata I place beneath politicians on
Socrates' hierarchy of virtue, but I just can't help a lingering
phobia of programs. Seeing some of those law schools going down by
desuetude would seem pretty fine by me anyhow.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Some programs go beyond just finding documents with relevant terms at
> computer speeds. They can extract relevant concepts — like documents
> relevant to social protest in the Middle East — even in the absence of
> specific terms, and deduce patterns of behavior that would have eluded
> lawyers examining millions of documents."
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html
>



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