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   "text": "The first generations of Legal Tech did not reduce demand for lawyers; by making far greater volumes of legal material available faster, they created a need for additional lawyers to evaluate that material.",
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   "text": "The ethos of interoperability in software development arose from a survival calculation rather than altruism: developers recognized that software which could not work across platforms would not survive.",
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