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The Trend Away From Lawyers’ Serving Organizational Clients

Jordan Furlong on Substack, “The coming revival of the PeopleLaw sector: Generative AI will inadvertently reduce the legal profession’s disproportionate focus on organizational clients — and could end up redirecting lawyers to meet the legal needs of everyday people.” This is a typically Furlong-esque thoughtful speculation about the legal profession, lawyers, and (implicitly, in this case) what changes in needs and wants might mean for law schools. A piece:

The PeopleLaw sector could soon generate significantly more demand for lawyers who can handle advanced and sophisticated needs beyond AI’s capacity. The organizational-law sector could soon shed a whole lot of lawyers with advanced and sophisticated legal skills. I’m not suggesting a straight substitution for, or migration of, BigLaw lawyers for and to the personal legal market. But I do think that, over the course of the coming years, we could see that kind of movement gradually take place. We could see an overdue rebalancing of lawyers’ market focus and a consequent revival of the long-neglected PeopleLaw sector — more lawyers providing this part of the market with more affordable and effective legal services.


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