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A firm that collects the windfalls and low—hanging fruit of contract negotiation by engaging cheap, paralegal staff, often in remote jurisdictions, to crunch through low-value legal processes no-one else can be bothered to do doing properly.
A firm that collects the windfalls and low—hanging fruit of contract negotiation by engaging cheap, paralegal staff, often in remote jurisdictions, to crunch through low-value legal processes no one else can be bothered to do doing properly.


May, or may not, be at great risk from [[LLM]]s. But aren’t we all.
According to soothsayers, seers and other miscellaneous blindfolded dartsmen of the legal industry, [[LPO]]s are a major disrupting force that will fundamentally re-engineer the industry. Or may have quietly already done so without anyone else noticing.
 
They may now, or may not, be at great risk from [[LLM]]s. But aren’t we all?
 
The LPO business model is easy to articulate in a four-box diagram, but hard to execute in practice. Hence there are very few of them out there, and they haven’t really made inroads on mainstream legal practice.