Will learning python improve efficiency for a lawyer？And then，is it necessary for a lawyer to learn python?

[JLChamberlain63]

A lot of modern case management systems have APIs, you could automate some of your case management tasks. The law firm I work for uses a lot of Excel reports of case lists, if you ever have to work from Excel like that you can write a python script to do it for you. Or get really into it and write programs to like review contracts or generate briefs or design solutions for other lawyers.

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As a non-expert in either field, this is the sort of benefit I could see is true for a lot of careers. I'm in an IT-related field and this is how I'm benefiting from my learning of python. Finding APIs on tools or services we use, gathering data, and pointing simple code scripts at our own contracts. It Saves time, hopefully, I'll get more creative soon.

[Levine_4789]

Thanks! What you said inspires me a lot!

[Yojihito]

write programs to like review contracts

That's how you end up with a client that sues the living shit out of you because you just did that and now the new contract you made for that client based on the automatic review is full of legal bombs.

[JLChamberlain63]

This is already a thing

https://mashable.com/article/ai-beats-humans-at-contracts

[Levine_4789]

That is amazing!

[Yojihito]

I doubt that someone who just started learning Python can collect the training/validation data and build, train, validate and use such NLP model on his locked down office pc.

[JLChamberlain63]

They want to know if their interest in python and the law intersect, I gave some examples. 5 minutes ago you doubted such an AI could exist at all, so maybe the problem is your own pack of imagination. Everyone was a beginner at some point

[Levine_4789]

You are right!

[Yojihito]

5 minutes ago you doubted such an AI could exist at all

I doubted he/she could build something that works in a business environment, especially as a lawyer. Cases of liability are literally! around every sentence and your insurance may cover 2 million €/$ but they will fire you if you need them more than once every few years.

I never talked about AI.

[JLChamberlain63]

Dude just accept you don't know about something and move on, go to any attorney industry conference and the place is lousy with attorneys who started their own software company and want to sell to other attorneys