# kaal:claim:2939127-009

**Claim.** Legal Tech applications will soon perform most of the work junior lawyers do, and will do so without the human elements that produce imprecision, flaws, inaccuracies, potential lawsuits, and delay; junior legal professionals and support staff are therefore the first casualties.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- high volume, standardizable junior lawyer tasks
- near future relative to 2017

**Source quote.**

> Legal Tech applications will be able to perform most of junior lawyers' work in the near future without the human elements that create imprecision, flaws, inaccuracies, possible lawsuits, and delay.

**From.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, *Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution* (2017), II. Legal Tech's Disruptive Legal Innovation, page 12

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in the Blockchain Revolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2939127

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**Failure mode.** junior-lawyer-displacement  (family: human-judgment-displacement)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** legal-tech, junior-lawyers, automation, legal-employment

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-013

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