Lawyerbots - Will They Someday Practice Law By Themselves?

Lawyerbots Given the Green Light in the US. This post from Gizmodo opines that the recent predictive coding ruling, which allowed the use of computer software to sift through millions of discovery documents for relevant material, may be the vanguard of a computer invasion of the courtroom. In a recent post, I considered the possiblity of computers replacing lawyers in the courtroom. Is predictive coding software the first volley of the lawyerbots? Apparently, the predictive coding software outperformed an army of lawyers in a test of the review of the Enron discovery documents. Next, software will be researching and writing appellate briefs. I wish I could use a robot to interview some of my more difficult clients. "Save the Drama For Your Mama" might go over better coming from a non-human.