{"id":20091,"date":"2015-12-18T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T21:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/report-artificial-intelligence-will-cause-structural-collapse-of-law-firms"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:29","slug":"report-artificial-intelligence-will-cause-structural-collapse-of-law-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/report-artificial-intelligence-will-cause-structural-collapse-of-law-firms","title":{"rendered":"Report: artificial intelligence will cause \u201cstructural collapse\u201d of law firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/report-artificial-intelligence-will-cause-structural-collapse-of-law-firms.jpg\"><\/a><br \/> Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will dominate legal practice within 15 years, perhaps leading to the \u201cstructural collapse\u201d of law firms, a report predicting the shape of the legal market has envisaged.<\/p>\n<p><em>Civilisation 2030: The near future for law firms<\/em>, by Jomati Consultants, foresees a world in which population growth is actually slowing, with \u201cpeak humanity\u201d occurring as early as 2055, and ageing populations bringing a growth in demand for legal work on issues affecting older people.<\/p>\n<p>This could mean more advice needed by healthcare and specialist construction companies on the building and financing of hospitals, and on pension investment businesses, as well as financial and regulatory work around the demographic changes to come; more age-related litigation, IP battles between pharmaceutical companies, and around so-called \u201cgeriatric-tech\u201d related IP.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalfutures.co.uk\/latest-news\/report-ai-will-transform-legal-world\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will dominate legal practice within 15 years, perhaps leading to the \u201cstructural collapse\u201d of law firms, a report predicting the shape of the legal market has envisaged. Civilisation 2030: The near future for law firms, by Jomati Consultants, foresees a world in which population growth is actually slowing, with \u201cpeak [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,45,1495,1496,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-finance","category-health","category-law","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68994,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20091\/revisions\/68994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}