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Here we go “And in addition to improving the quality of legal advice (and hence the client’s decisions), legal analytics is reducing bias in the courtroom by providing full transparency, speeding up court proceedings, and improving access to justice”. 1/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/calumchace/2020/10/22/the-impact-of-artificial-intelligence-on-the-law/
“In future, it may be considered professional malpractice not to use legal analytics”. If people repeat this often enough it may become true @cohubicol1 2/
“Might the tech giants go one further, and disintermediate firms like Lex Machina? How can these firms keep their data proprietary when Google, OpenAI and the rest can crawl the entire web in a matter of hours?” 3/
“It takes insider knowledge – and plenty of time and effort - to collate the information, and render it amenable to analysis by machines. The resulting databases are not copyright, but they are proprietary”. In the EU they may instead be proprietary. 5/
So what about all the narratives on making legal texts machine readable - presenting this as enhancing access to justice? See slides of my The Hague keynote https://www.cohubicol.com/news/hildebrandt-keynotes-at-the-european-forum-of-official-gazettes-at-the-hague/ 6/
“But lawyers are essential to the smooth functioning of commerce, and society at large, and the profession provides lucrative employment to lots of clever graduates.” So that’s it 
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“If, as many believe, technological unemployment is coming in a generation or so, we need to figure out how that make the consequence wonderful. We need to figure out how to create fully automated luxury capitalism”. Need I say more 
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Seems I forgot number 4. So here’s what triggered Forbes to spread its misinformation: a new dataset of “Lex Machina, a subsidiary of RELX, the British information corporate formerly known as Reed Elsevier, is announcing today the publication of data on 119,000 cases”. 4=8/
But 8 was 9, so I will do closure with 10 and 11. Law is not just about lubrication of economic markets. Rule of law is about checks & balances and legal protection for each of us. 10/11
Legal analytics is not outperforming humans, it is just simulating aspects of their observable behaviours (text, voting, voice pitch, see https://osf.io/preprints/lawarxiv/q5nrm/. 11/11
Thank you @cabitzaf for pointing me to this 
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