If we are increasingly willing to consign our fortunes to the advice of artificially intelligent financial advisers and place our mortal survival in the hands of robo surgeons and driverless cars, when should we entrust our legal rights to robo-lawyers?

This four-part series explores whether we want robo-lawyers and when they are likely to rise, what it will takes for a robo-lawyer to understand a human client and its legal issues, subtle legal skills we will need to develop in a robo-lawyer, and the deeper changes society will face before embracing robo-lawyers. Part 4 of this series also posits five questions you should ask your robo-lawyer before abandoning corporeal counsel.