This article first appeared in Legal Web Watch late October 2015. Legal Web Watch is a free monthly email service which complements the Internet Newsletter for Lawyers. To receive Legal Web Watch regularly sign up here.
An updated version has now been published in the November Newsletter.
Image: Big Data Analytics by Jim Kaskade on Flickr.
This follow-up article by Daniel is worth a read as an introduction
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/02/robot-doctors-lawyers-professions-embrace-change-machines