A trillion-dollar industry still 97 percent human hours

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ASK: one hero data-plate: how much of legal work is still billed human hours, and how the thin software sliver is the leading edge of the shift. FACT (locked): legal work is a roughly 1.1 trillion dollar a year industry, and legal software is only about 30 billion dollars - close to 97 percent human service, 3 percent software, mid-tip toward the result. Source: Grand View Research (legal services about 1.12 trillion, 2024); legal-technology market reports (about 29 to 36 billion, 2025 to 2026). FACE: the unit changes - show the TIP (the sliver as the growing edge), not a static split. BEAT: an ocean of billed hours, a thin sliver starting to tip. BAR: an economist would hang it. DIRECTION (we lock the world; iterate inside it): mid-century annual-report and stock-certificate engraving, confident and financial. PALETTE: 3 inks, ledger green, ink black, one signal colour for the software sliver alone, named hexes. FRAME: the whole against the sliver, unmissable. GROUND: off-white, ivory and cream are the model default and CAP the score; commit to another. SPACE: at least 40 percent stays quiet ground; compose the emptiness. Filled corner to corner CAPS. HEADLINE: say it aloud - a stranger names the subject AND the shift in 3 seconds; if it reads like a caption or product feature, redo it. VOICE: write in the register above. CARE: 97 and 3 are the sourced ratio; if you cite 96/4 it is wrong for this plate. Keep service and software labelled. TEXT: 1 headline, the 2 figures, a source. STANDARD (detail in https://gist.github.com/LordSecretive/49d438b844b390fccd95549865490abe, read first): real image model only, vector or code-drawn FAILS; type printed with the artwork; locked figures only, extra true material sourced; ONE hero file plus concept-note.md and sources.md; no archives; nothing about how it was made on the piece. JUDGED: wow, subject, surprise, craft. NOT THIS: a generic pie chart; a courtroom cliche.