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Lawyers have been resisting technological advances for years. No industry rejects technological tools as vehemently as the legal industry, arguing that everything has to be judged by people. Even laws that are available online do not even link to the paragraphs that are referenced. All in all, progress is institutionally suppressed here in order to preserve jobs.

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> Even laws that are available online do not even link to the paragraphs that are referenced.

It's not lawyers' job to publish the laws online. Lawyers are the ones who would benefit from more easily searchable online laws, as they are the ones whose job is actually to read the laws. That is why there are various commercial tools that provide this functionality, that lawyers pay for. You need to ask your government why public online legal databases are so poor, not your lawyer.

Right. 70% of governmental staff are people with a law education. So I mean lawyer in a broader sense

I also built an AI contract review ai tool and talked to > 100 lawyers. What I found is that lawyers want technological advances but only if they work 100% of the time.

Also helped lawyers looking for a CLM, and they rejected something if it caused any inconvenience.

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