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I'm surprised by the amount of Luddite abuse on this article. I wonder how many of you work for law firms charging out trainees or paralegals (by which you usually mean law grads who are not good enough to be trainees) for £100/hr plus and think that racket will survive for many more years?? £350+ for an average associate is already pricing global businesses out of day-to-day legal advice and into the arms of the legal employment agencies such as Axiom and LoD.

AI is already poised to wipe out hundreds of thousands of chargeable hours in litigation document review. Do you really think the software developers making a killing thanks to the arrogance of traditional private practice law will stop there?

I work for an innovative ABS firm and I have to say I am delighted both by the direction the profession is heading in (cost-effective, commercially based and priced legal advice using technology to automate the mundane) and the enormous reluctance to acknowledge it expressed in these comments!