No, connecting the facts and rules will not give you the answer.
Lawyers are only required when there are real legal issues: boundary cases, procedural defenses, countervailing leverage...
But sometimes legal heroes like Witkins drag through all the cases and statutes, identifying potential issues and condensing them in summaries. New lawyers use these as a starting-point for their investigations.
So a Law LLM first needs to be trained on Witkins to understand the language of issues, as well as the applicable law.
Then somehow the facts need to be loaded in a form recognizable as such (somewhat like a doctor translating "dizziness" to "postural hypotension" with some queries). That would be an interesting LLM application in its own right.
Putting those together in a domain-specific way would be a great business: target California Divorce, Texas product-liability tort, etc.
Law firms changed from pipes to pyramids in the 1980's as firms expanded their use of associates (and started the whole competition-to-partnership). This could replace associates, but then you'd lose the competitiveness that disciplines associates (and reduce buyers available for the partnership). Also, corporate clients nurture associates as potential replacements and redundant information sources, as a way of managing their dependence on external law firms. For LLM's to have a sizable impact on law, you'd need to sort out the transaction cost economics features of law firms, both internally and externally.
No, connecting the facts and rules will not give you the answer.
Lawyers are only required when there are real legal issues: boundary cases, procedural defenses, countervailing leverage...
But sometimes legal heroes like Witkins drag through all the cases and statutes, identifying potential issues and condensing them in summaries. New lawyers use these as a starting-point for their investigations.
So a Law LLM first needs to be trained on Witkins to understand the language of issues, as well as the applicable law.
Then somehow the facts need to be loaded in a form recognizable as such (somewhat like a doctor translating "dizziness" to "postural hypotension" with some queries). That would be an interesting LLM application in its own right.
Putting those together in a domain-specific way would be a great business: target California Divorce, Texas product-liability tort, etc.
Law firms changed from pipes to pyramids in the 1980's as firms expanded their use of associates (and started the whole competition-to-partnership). This could replace associates, but then you'd lose the competitiveness that disciplines associates (and reduce buyers available for the partnership). Also, corporate clients nurture associates as potential replacements and redundant information sources, as a way of managing their dependence on external law firms. For LLM's to have a sizable impact on law, you'd need to sort out the transaction cost economics features of law firms, both internally and externally.