Lawyer pushes back on Silicon Valley: family law is 90% emotional work
jkubicki · x · 2026-08-30
A legal professional rebuts Silicon Valley takes that AI will replace lawyers: clients buy more than documents. Counsel is delivered with context, pattern matching, emotion and coaching — the human part of lawyering is the job.
He notes he is no defender of the status quo or an AI bear, but such takes are clickbait, poorly informed and full of hubris: family law is 90% emotional work, and M&A is about positioning, negotiating and level setting — not just papering the deal.
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