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