[crusso]

What I see is a tougher job market, justifiably

Yeah, as this kind of software progresses, fewer people will be required to do one of the main jobs that lawyers do well - reading through tons of legal documents.

Additionally, even mediocre attorneys and paralegals will be able to provide a good level of service by leveraging the software.

What will happen is that the industry will need to focus on higher-level tasks to find productive work.

Sorry to sound cynical, but unfortunately for the rest of us, idle lawyers usually do a great job of creating new work for other lawyers out of thin air.

Like I've always said: when a medical doctor runs out of patients, he can't just go around breaking peoples' legs to make more work. Lawyers, however, can cause a great deal of destruction when they want something to do. That destruction creates work for yet more lawyers. The ultimate display of that ability is when they go into politics. :)