Lawyers Replaced by Computers

In January, for example, Blackstone Discovery of Palo Alto, Calif., helped analyze 1.5 million documents for less than $100,000. �

�From a legal staffing viewpoint, it means that a lot of people who used to be allocated to conduct document review are no longer able to be billed out,� said Bill Herr, who as a lawyer at a major chemical company used to muster auditoriums of lawyers to read documents for weeks on end. �People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don�t.�

The computers seem to be good at their new jobs. � Herr � used e-discovery software to reanalyze work his company�s lawyers did in the 1980s and �90s. His human colleagues had been only 60 percent accurate, he found. �Think about how much money had been spent to be slightly better than a coin toss,� he said.

Notes:

To conduct discovery. Because humans get bored and only have a 60 percent success rate.

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Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Markoff, John (2011), Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software, New York Times, Retrieved on 2012-01-04

Source Material [www.nytimes.com]

Folksonomies: technology automation

Schemas

25 MAR 2013

Automating Ourselves Out of Employment

As we automate people out of work, how will will deal with the unemployment? The science fiction utopia of a post-scarcity society can't work in a Capitalist system. How will we deal with the fact that fewer and fewer monopolists will control all the resources and have less and less need for employees? Alternative Titles: The Post-Scarcity Distopia

Folksonomies: employment automation