Writing
On Legal Automation
Automation is not replacement. It is choosing where the judgment goes.
The fear about automating legal work assumes the machine takes the judgment. It doesn’t — or it shouldn’t. What it takes is the repetition: the assembling, the cross-checking, the same clause typed for the thousandth time.
What’s left, once the chaos is handled, is the part that was always the point: deciding. The machine clears the harbour so the navigator can actually navigate.
That is the whole thesis of legalotomasyon — and of most of the tools that will surface here.