Bloomberg Law
Oct. 22, 2015, 8:13 PM UTC

Will Human Touch Save Lawyers From Disruption?

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

One doesn’t have to look far these days to find an article predicting lawyers are on the brink of a disruptive crisis.

In just one example, the Harvard Law Bulletin ran an article this month that opens, “The warning bells have been ringing for at least two decades: The legal profession as we’ve known it is doomed, and lawyers must adapt – or face extinction.”

This week, however, Seyfarth Shaw’s chairman Stephen Poor pushed back against the naysayers who think everything lawyers do can be automated.

“With all due deference to those who believe that we are on the cusp ...

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