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The unofficial assessment centre exercises that decide who get big money training contracts

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By Alex Aldridge
| Legal Cheek Verified
Like Doulingo, law firms have their own version of the ‘taxi driver test’ You manage to avoid coming across like a megalomaniac/wallflower during the group exercises, hold your nerve to deliver presentations about topics way outside your comfort zone, and survive interviews with gruff partners to whom every minute not billing clients is worth frightening sums of money … and then lose it all because of a seemingly inconsequential interaction with someone you thought didn’t count.
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Barrister says that AI will ‘completely destroy’ the legal profession as global law firm chief fires warning on slop and hallucinations

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By Alex Aldridge
| Legal Cheek Verified
Which one is it? The confusion about whether AI is a total game-changer or a useful but flawed bit of new tech continues — with law once again providing the backdrop for much of the debate. On one hand you have ‘AI will kill all the lawyers: A barrister’s warning’, published this week in The Spectator.
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Why AI probably won’t disrupt law firms any time soon

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By Alex Aldridge
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The idea that 25 year-old rookie solicitors earning nearly £200,000 are ripe for replacement by tech is appealing, but likely to be wrong In 2017 I remember a partner at a large City of London law firm telling me confidently that trainee numbers were about to be decimated due to AI, then in its ‘machine learning’ incarnation.
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