U.S.

& International Business Law

Week 2-2

Technological Unemployment, the Changing Content and Structure of Careers

Contents: Lecture #3

Technological unemployment

The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization?

Are lawyers also susceptible to having their jobs replaced by automation?

High risk: transportation, logistics, office and administrative support jobs, production jobs,
and also service sector jobs

Who is taking legal research and writing?

Kyurin - legal research can be more simplified

Offline ways to access cases is very overwhelming and inefficient.

Using websites containing cases and jurisdictions is much easier and efficient.

Digital platform for legal market?

Lawtalk – Korean platform that connects clients with lawyers that might best help solve
their case.

Uses algorithms

Lawyers aren’t as good as they were (in terms of social status and money).