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Teaching law students creative skills could save the profession from automation - C C - Jun 21, 2018
https://theconversation.com/teaching-law-students-creative-skills-could-save-the-profession-from-automation-97615
EXCERPT: Around 40% of all law jobs are at risk of automation, according to a 2016 Deloitte report. Traditional skills expected of law graduates are increasingly going to be undertaken by new AI-driven software. Basic skills such as database research and document drafting are already being automated by large Australian law firms.
The race is on to go beyond basic skills to automate higher-order thinking itself. Law firms want a piece of software that can find the relevant law and apply it to a client’s unique set of factual circumstances. In some cases this already exists. The application of law to facts has been a basic skill taught to law students in Australia for more than 100 years. So if this skill is automated, what does that mean for the future of law schools, law firms, and law graduates?
MORE: https://theconversation.com/teaching-law-students-creative-skills-could-save-the-profession-from-automation-97615