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One of our readers has a simple question that probably does not have a simple answer, but we will pose it to you anyway: What areas of law do you think are futureproof? Is there such a thing?
Job Tips: Futureproof
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Ultimately, none of it is. I am young enough that I fully expect AI to nearly completely subsume the legal industry before I hit retirement age. The good news, though, is that we have effective, forward thinking, informed leadership in the White House and on Capitol Hill.
Lobbying, if you consider that an "area of law."
Special transactions for large, wealthy corporate clients. Meaning business deals, or other things that are unusual and high-stakes, and for which a bot or form does not (or will not) already exist.
Same as above, with respect to (rare) appellate work.
Actual presentation of trials, in the (even more rare) event that something goes to trial. But the presentation will suck because almost no one will have ever done one before.
Criminal – public prosecutor and criminal defense via public defender. Because people will still be bad in the future and the Sixth Amendment will probably still be around.
Family law. It is already driven far more by irrational emotions than facts and law. AI is by definition logical and rational. I doubt it would ever be able to make decisions based on irrational emotions.
Family Law. Robots will never be able to understand irrational thought.
None of it, if you're handling consultations right. The trick isn't taking facts A and B and applying them to expected law to come up with result C. The trick is developing the skills to elicit facts A and B in the first place and then the interpretation of those facts in context. Humans are not great at listening and understanding, but AI is even worse.
Correction – all of it is futureproof.
10:13 and 10:34 win
As long as greed, hated, rejection, jealousy, violence, negligence and unrequited love exist, we will be in business.
The decline of the American public education system actually works to the benefit of lawyers. The more stupid and uninformed society becomes, the more people must rely on attorneys to do for them what they are incapable of doing for themselves and the more people must rely on attorneys to fix the things they break.
Would love the blog's thoughts on ways for new attorneys to generate business.
Which practice area(s)?
Additional questions:
Are you building your own practice or?
Working for a firm you plan to leave or?
Working for a firm you plan on staying with?
Civil lit, business, transactional. Not building own practice, either staying with this firm if I can or eventually leaving. I meant the question in a general sense– primarily asking because the advice I tend to get as a new lawyer is to focus more on generating business earlier in my career than later…but there isn't a lot of advice as to how to actually go about doing that.
This is a good start: https://www.attorneyatwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Build-It-Law-Firm-Associates-Guide-to-Business-Development-2017-Attorney-at-Work.pdf
If you would like to get more specific, feel free to call me at 702-810-2269 — Michael
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