Doesn’t Darwin Pass Indian Lawyers the Covid-19Test?The Confidential 90%-Extinct Theory
By: – Rabin Majumer
Corona @Covid-19 Considered to be a seismic event has changed the whole dynamics of the Advocates’ profession in India ,quite faster and the 90%Advocates who had already been multi-prong struggles due to Uncle-Judges syndrome; and due to technology driven-system overlaps, are now subjected to 2020-edition of Covid-19 which has left feelings of near extinction.
Such 90% Advocates who had been facing economic hardships, are eventually thrown up to cost related entry barriers to legal self-employment are geometrically raising, sorrowfully India’s existing System(Bar Council sand/Bar Associations) do not have enough plans, zeal to protect new tsunami of hopefuls which hit Law Street. Most Advocates make a mere living providing what are in truth bureaucracy facilitation services in, for example, in Sub-registrars offices where Artificial Intelligence has caused altering those lawyers’ revenue models to their disadvantages.
Indian had substantially digitized the bureaucracy and made their decision-making process technology-driven as part of its regular or other function. The least example is sub-registrars offices to E-filing process. Gaggles of “facilitations agents” i. e majority of those 90%lawyers in India are losing “practice”. If not on the verge of “Professional starvation. Artificial intelligence is marching resolutely into the very innards of compliance process in a way that is difficult to resist and as it does, it’s running the lawyers out of town, towards Apna Gaon (from where he/she once gracefully emigrated)!!! Artificial Intelligence is threating lawyers at all levels.
It may be remembered that previously the then LPO, now On-line documentation drafting support services, are showing the way. If a machine can quickly and efficiently deliver a quality contract, it can do the same with a complex court case too. It’s only a matter of time before we use product which we churn out entire case briefs with supporting documents using basic inputs from the machine operators for even the most complex cases. It appears inevitable that a lot of lawyers estimated and feared to be 90%f them are going to be ejected out from the justice machine. If Google can determine with a high statistical certainty what product I will likely buy next, another algorithm can determine what risk is likely to hit a business in the foreseeable future. Dispute resolution is simplicity itself. How long is it before machines will be able to handle more complex disputes?
Thus the urgency of the modernization is unprecedented and the said 90%-class lawyers have genuine financial and social worries. Whatever that be, afterburners needs to be ON to get extra throttle to be in the air-assimilated digital law practice in virtual court scenario. Technology and new delivery models are far more advanced then we can even perceive of and even if we do, the said No-Class lawyers can match the demands, financially or otherwise, in a short term scenario. It’s a fact the genie is out of law’s bottle, and is unlikely to return. (Rabin Majumder is an Advocate-on Record in Supreme Court of India, News Delhi, views expressed are personel)
