AI & Law: Assembly Line Lawyering

Lance Eliot
6 min readFeb 13, 2023
AI can enable assembly line lawyering, for the better or the worse

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Abstract: The legal field generally has a significant distaste for “assembly line” characterizations about the practice of law and the pursuit of justice. The downtrodden viewpoint of assembly lines is that those kinds of archaic production processes are utterly unsuitable to the knowledge work undertaken by the legal profession. Despite those qualms, there is an argument to be made that law offices and the practice of law might eventually adopt assembly line principles, especially enabled via the addition of AI in the law.

Key briefing points about this article:

  • Assembly lines are well-known as being key to efficient mass production
  • Manufacturing extensively uses assembly lines, as do fast-food eateries
  • Concerns have been raised about assembly line pitfalls in our justice system
  • Some have floated the notion of assembly lines in law practices for legal endeavors
  • AI in the law could very likely spur and enable such law practice…

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Lance Eliot

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a renowned global expert on AI, successful startup founder, global CIO/CTO, , was a top exec at a major Venture Capital (VC) firm.