This is the first stage: lawyers are now going to the cloud for their tasks. Legal offices can now be run without a physical office. Lawyers can potentially deal with more cases. It&#x27;s blue-ocean strategy that just found a way to disrupt a market; Legal assistants can be reduced (or eliminated), Eventually, the need for paralegals will disappear (or pivot, hopefully). Then even Lawyers will be eaten by software.<p>I give it fifteen years before Judges are hearing arguments from Watson (or [hopefully free software] equivalents) more than they&#x27;re hearing humans.<p>I&#x27;m looking forward to running process on&#x2F;through a judge that&#x27;s software-based, myself, as even their jobs will be swallowed soon enough. Judges are pretty much compilers for legal processes. it&#x27;d be interesting to deal with a GNU one.