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In the US, the vast majority of legislators are lawyers. Lawyers have their own “unions” (eg the American Bar Association”).

I can definitely see this kind of protectionism occurring.

OTOH, I also see potential for a proliferation of law firms offering online services that are LLM-driven for specific scenarios, or tech firms (LegalZoom etc) offering similar services, and hiring a lawyer on staff to ensure that they can’t be sued for providing unlicensed legal advice.

In other words it might compete with lawyers at the low end, but big law could co-opt it to take advantage of efficiency increases over hiring interns and junior lawyers.