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by bluGill 22 days ago
Because you need a human lawyer to appear before a jury. AI can fill in forms but not appear in person.
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Only a very small percent of cases go before a jury; the vast majority are decided by a judge by himself.
Judges rarely decide a case. Though most cases are settled in front of a judge without a jury. Mostly a semantic distinction