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Rachel Harmon: belief

17 Jun 2020 Conversations with Tyler Rachel Harmon on Policing

“Again, since my experience as a lawyer was primarily in the government sector, it’s hard for me to assess the tradeoffs in automation and in deprofessionalization, as well as outsourcing law work.”

— Rachel Harmon

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Speaker
Rachel Harmon
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
17 Jun 2020
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…If you think of the legal profession as a whole, you see a lot of lawyers at lower levels now being displaced by a mix of software and research assistants, and the research assistants are paid much less than lawyers used to be. By how much will the legal profession contract, given AI, machine learning, and just smart people who are willing to do some work without a law degree? Again, since my experience as a lawyer was primarily in the government sector, it’s hard for me to assess the tradeoffs in automation and in deprofessionalization, as well as outsourcing law work. I can’t really tell. I think the New York City murder rate has declined by about a factor of 20 —…

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