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Cept as lawyers, they are in an exceptional position to sue you, as this is their battle ground, unlike taxi drivers or renters.

The legal industry - an explicit manifestation of state power - will require a great deal of guns and soldiers to disrupt.

It’s much less the “state” as in the government than the state bar associations and such. They’re guilds, essentially, and quite protectionist ones at that.

It's like Uber, except we take on massive liability for each thing we do because by law we have to.

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This company is about the closest I've seen to disrupting anything so far.

https://www.legalpad.io

My experience and observable reality show that it's hard. There's a reason even the techiest of companies still pay an army of lawyers in house and still go to the best firms for major transactions and disputes: