Will AI replace Paralegals and Legal Assistants?

Why this score

Document review, legal research, contract analysis, and case file organization — the core of paralegal work — are being automated by AI tools that already exist in most large and mid-size US law firms. Citation checking, deposition summarization, and due diligence workflows that once took paralegals days are now completed by AI in minutes. The economic incentive for firms to replace billable paralegal hours with AI subscriptions is overwhelming, and there is strong historical precedent for this kind of displacement accelerating quickly. If your daily work consists primarily of tasks a machine can read, sort, summarize, or flag, how long before your firm decides the machine is enough?

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