Bloomberg Law
May 1, 2015, 7:39 PM UTC

Will Powerful Technology Replace Lawyers?

Joyce Cutler

Lawyers could become legal concierges and should adopt computational law for their practices and stay current with technology, or else risk fading away, according to speakers at the CodeX FutureLaw Conference on April 30 at Stanford Law School.

Oliver Goodenough, a University of Vermont law professor, told the audience at Stanford, that there are things lawyers now do in their heads, which can be done in a machine. “Law is fundamentally a computational exercise.”

“Anything we write in a contract I think can be rewritten in a coded way,” said Goodenough, a visiting professor at CodeX – the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics.

“There is no ...

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