# kaal:claim:3227967-013

**Claim.** Junior legal professionals and legal support staff are the first casualties of the Legal Tech evolution, because applications will soon perform most junior lawyer work without the human elements that create imprecision, flaws, inaccuracies, possible lawsuits and delay.

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

**Holds when.**

- continued decentralization of legal services by startups

**Source quote.**

> Junior legal professionals and legal support staff are likely the first victims of the Legal Tech evolution.32 Legal Tech applications will be able to perform most of the junior lawyers' work soon 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 a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters* (2018), IV. Legal Tech, page 16

**Cite as.** Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967

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**Failure mode.** Displacement of junior legal work  (family: human-judgment-displacement)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, education-and-practice

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

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2939127-009

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