New Grads, Technology, and the Law
A Practice Life I Can Hardly Imagine Yesterday, in the context of discussing new grads working in legal temp jobs, I said: Many of these document review jobs have begun disappearing as they move offshore or get done by computers that can scan, analyze, and report the data in ways not possible for easily-bored, human brains. This shift is a small part of the commoditization of law jobs that Richard Susskind discusses in his book Tomorrow's Lawyers . Commodity work will continue to lose value in the marketplace and the price for it will move towards $0. When I read that book this summer, I realized that a recessionary economy was just one of the challenges new grads will face over the life of their careers. But, I will save that discussion for a later posting. This December 5, 2013 bl og posting by Rohit Talwar discusses some of the "disruptive" legal technologies that new grads may face during their careers. I look forwar