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Automating junior work while relying on senior supervision is a real contradiction
A model that automates junior work while relying on experienced lawyers for supervision contains a real contradiction, raising the question of where the next generation of experienced lawyers will acquire its judgment, and the profession needs a new way to develop expert lawyers.
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- AI can replace junior work only if firms rebuild its training functionAI does not eliminate the consequences of bad legal work ·
- Automated junior work: the profession costs its training pipeline
- If AI takes junior work, show where legal judgment develops
- Keep junior lawyers close to the work that builds judgmentAI does not eliminate the consequences of bad legal work ·
- Tie AI supervision to junior-lawyer training
- Build a training path before AI erodes junior workAI does not eliminate the consequences of bad legal work ·
- Create a new route to judgment as AI automates junior work
- Test whether AI leaves junior lawyers enough work to learn
- A consequence: AI use puts junior training at riskAI does not eliminate the consequences of bad legal work ·
- Preserve junior-lawyer training as AI takes over legal workAI does not eliminate the consequences of bad legal work ·