Some are also concerned about sacrificing
bright students to the articling -
associate track, and losing half of them from private practice by the time they are five years in anyway, more if you look just at women.
For a variety of reasons covered here before — closer scrutiny by more sophisticated and motivated clients, new technology and processes capable of handling rote work cheaply, low - cost alternatives to
associates in low - cost jurisdictions — large firms won't be able to employ armies of
associates on work that a
bright law
student could do.