Microsoft quietly replaces in-house lawyers with AI in unprecedented legal shakeup

Years of experience no shield from Redmond purge.

Microsoft has laid off 15,000 employees across the globe since mid-May. Just in the tech giant’s home state of Washington, the reductions have cost at least 32 company attorneys and five paralegals their jobs,

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