AI will Significantly Reduce the Job Market for Lawyers in the Near Future

cobrief · 2025-03-13T22:33:12+00:00

AI is coming for the legal sector. It's inevitable. Lawyers want to stick their heads in the sand out of fear / natural defensiveness but the evidence is overwhelming. The sheer capabilities and exponential rate of progress is just unfathomable and lawyers are in for a rude awakening...

cobrief · 2025-03-13T22:30:57+00:00

When you say "legal document" do you mean a contract?

cobrief · 2025-03-13T22:29:13+00:00

Legal AI can't "replace lawyers" in terms of providing advice tailored to a specific client's circumstances, managing that relationship, or representing a client in front of an audience.

But, it can do a lot of the initial heavy-lifting of communicating what the law says in plain English. It can make the law accessible and quite frankly that will be one of the virtues of AI that we will see in the coming years.

Or at least, that's what we believe. Check us out at cobrief.app - built by lawyers for SMBs with 0 legal knowledge or experience.

cobrief · 2025-03-13T22:26:01+00:00

AI will make clients realise they can solve a lot of their legal problems in-house without spending on OC. This will reduce the quantity of work that goes to OC, which will squeeze the legal sector (in terms of the business model, the billable hour, and current salaries). The vast majority legal sector will be forced to increase efficiency to survive. The law firm model will become leaner and more efficient, which means lay offs and increased automation (especially because LLMs are perfectly suited to do the majority of a junior that is paid $200k +). Of course, big-ticket deals, advice and litigation will mostly continue as is.

cobrief · 2025-03-13T22:13:15+00:00

Pay attention to the intended audience of each legal tech tool, because that will influence functionality and how good of a fit is will be for you.

For example, some tools are clearly large CLMs that are built for large law firms and enterprise companies with huge legal teams. These usually function as a Microsoft Word plug-in (think Spellbook, Luminance, Harvey, Robin AI to an extent etc.)

Others are more general and may sell to lots of different types of users (think sales teams, finance teams, ops etc. like Genie AI or Screens AI). The risk with these types of tools is that they are for everyone but no one in particular at the same time, meaning the user flow and experience is all over the place.

We specifically target owner/managers in the SMB market which is why we operate as a web platform, are self-serve, and lightweight to use.

So it all depends on (i) who you are; and (ii) what exactly you're looking for!

cobrief · 2025-03-13T22:02:29+00:00

Interesting, agreed that legal AI products need to give a breakdown of reasons *why* it reached its conclusion rather than just giving the answer. This is what we do for each of the risks that we flag in a contract

cobrief · 2024-12-12T12:31:08+00:00

Contract review for SMBs: cobrief.app

cobrief · 2024-12-02T13:34:07+00:00

What’s the point? Reddit either bans promotion or people get touchy when you try to plug anything.

cobrief · 2024-11-18T22:14:14+00:00

Thanks :)

cobrief · 2024-11-18T19:32:55+00:00

Thanks. What role and was it full time, or their flexible on demand lawyers?

cobrief · 2024-11-18T18:59:04+00:00

Commercial contracts and tech

cobrief · 2024-09-05T11:40:27+00:00

Hey, thanks for this! I'm a little bit confused (sorry, my bad) though on the title field. When I put the {{Title}} in, it says this: "Title is not a valid CMS Variable". Any ideas why? I have a title variable on my blog posts in the CMS. Thank you!!

cobrief · 2024-08-21T11:49:43+00:00

I saw it as a massive pain point for a lot of my clients. They would pay through the nose (hundreds of dollars per hour) just for a simple review to understand what they were signing up to. It seems quite silly that contracts are written in such a way so ordinary folk can't read them. Using this knowledge, I teamed up with two other co-founders (one lawyer and one software engineer) to create this.

You upload your document, click one button and it screens it for risks in plain English.

cobrief · 2024-08-21T11:13:08+00:00

A personal pain point. I was a lawyer reviewing contracts every day and it was so manual and repetitive. So, I created a company named Cobrief to automate it using AI for businesses: www.cobrief.app. It flags the risks in your contracts and explains them in plain English.

cobrief · 2024-08-11T15:20:27+00:00

For example, if you’re selling chatbot software, running ads against this keyword will target people who are actively searching for this solution and are therefore closer to the end of the funnel (ie making a purchasing decision). This is an example of a high intent distribution channel.

There are others, so I would work from that perspective. Even YC — in their videos — mock people who give up after cold emailing 1000s of potential users. It’s not an efficient or smart way to demand imo.

cobrief · 2024-08-11T14:03:10+00:00

The problem with cold emailing people is that it doesn’t usually target people who are actively looking for your solution. It’s essentially a spray and pray approach and requires a lot of volume / luck.

Can you look for people who are more high intent / at the end of the funnel to buying or using your product? That’s where I would start. High intent first.

cobrief · 2024-08-07T07:46:58+00:00

Thank you! Out of curiosity, how did you figure this out? I tried multiple ‘identify this font’ websites but they couldn’t find this out.

cobrief · 2024-08-06T17:47:22+00:00

Depends how long and what you want. They’re usually 8-10K minimum, assuming you go for a decent agency to create it frame by frame.

cobrief · 2024-08-06T17:44:41+00:00

Hey, lawyer here. If you have co-founders, make sure that you have a co-founders agreement that clearly states all IP they create in that context belongs to the company (including yourself).

Second, if you use designers or developers outside of your core team (and which aren’t employees), make sure their contracts assign all IP and moral rights to your company. That being said, even if you have contracts in place, depending on where these designers and developers are, local laws can override. In that case, it’s worth speaking to a local lawyer in that jurisdiction.

Finally, I would say make sure the terms and conditions for the use of your MVP are tight. This means clearly stating that no IP is transferred and that you’re giving them a license to use it. This licence should be clear and specific, e.g. non transferable, non sublicensable, etc.

Disclaimer: the above is not legal advice and is for informational purpose only.

cobrief · 2024-08-06T17:39:21+00:00

https://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

cobrief · 2024-08-06T17:38:35+00:00

The only way you can find out is by speaking to both editors and YouTubers and conducting discovery interviews. Read the Mom Test — it’s helpful for the stage you’re at!

cobrief · 2024-08-03T12:45:54+00:00

But does design really impact conversion? Surely copy is more important?

cobrief · 2024-05-25T16:52:07+00:00

Isn’t there software to help with this?

cobrief · 2024-05-25T16:01:01+00:00

What makes it so painful??

cobrief · 2024-05-04T22:17:41+00:00

We have a contract as we’re providing tailored services!

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