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By Edward Murphy, B.C.E., J.D.
Member of the California Bar
Member of the Pennsylvania Bar |  |
What is the job description of lawyering?
Lawyers do four things. Listen, read, write and talk. Actually, listening and reading are essentially the same thing: words in. And writing and talking are essentially the same thing: words out. Sometimes lawyers also look at pictures, so you could modify the job description and say words and pictures in. And since sometimes lawyers show pictures, for example to juries, you could say sometimes pictures out, but not in the sense an artist outputs a picture by painting somebody's portrait. So words in and words out is mainly and essentially what all lawyers do everywhere—and only what all lawyers everywhere do qua lawyers.
Words in and words out is the essence of lawyering, unlike many other professionals and tradesmen. Physicians, besides words in and words out, need to feel and make adjustments and do other things with their hands. So a robot physician would need mechanical arms and fingers. An architect needs to see and experience space and objects. A robot architect would need to have vision. Robot physicians and robot architects would need to be electro-optical-mechanical contraptions.
Not so for a robot lawyer. Blind people can practice law. People without arms can practice law. People who can't draw can practice law. Why? Because lawyers mainly and essentially only process words, and all you need for that is three components: an input device, a processor and an output device: words in and words out.
Computers have been able to process words (and pictures) for generations. For years now, cheap desktop computers with voice recognition cards have been able to digitize spoken words, optical character readers have been able to digitize written words, and printers and voice synthesizers have been able to output documents and spoken words. The very essence of a computer is input device, processor, output device: just what is needed for words in, words out.
If only a computer could figure out the right words, it could practice law.
Check out its features, Robot Lawyer™ does just that.
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