I don&#x27;t see why &quot;Uber for lawyers&quot; wouldn&#x27;t work.<p>I&#x27;m imagining a combined semi-automated service where the paperwork side of law - simple wills, notarisation, simple divorces, and so on - is completely automated, and the creative elements are farmed out to individual attorneys with a public track record of success who compete on price.<p>It&#x27;s going to kill the traditional law firm business model stone dead.<p>Lawyers are basically paid to logic-chop precedent and written law, and to be persuasive and&#x2F;or intimidating in more or less creative ways. IMO eventually <i>all</i> of that could be automated.<p>I don&#x27;t see any reason why AI couldn&#x27;t potentially have super-human powers of persuasion and manipulation. It won&#x27;t happen by 2030, but the next step are document searching is to bundle up the basics of law as a low-cost automated service, and then start automating the process of argument, cross-examination, and persuasion - which will lead to an arms race, which will lead to very rapid advances, which will lead to complete automation of civil and criminal law by (I&#x27;d guess) the end of the century.