Brandt & Oyelaran, a commercial law firm, has licensed drafting software that cuts by half the associate time required to produce a finished supply contract, including the associate's own final review. Because the firm bills clients by the hour, its partners expect that clients will pay substantially less for each contract. They further conclude that the total number of hours the firm's associates devote to supply contracts will decline.

The partners' second conclusion depends on which of the following assumptions?

A. Clients will not regard contracts produced with the software's help as less reliable than those drafted entirely by associates.
B. The lower price of each contract will not prompt clients to commission enough additional supply contracts to offset the time saved on each one.
C. The software shortens the work on every type of supply contract the firm drafts, not merely on the most routine ones.
D. The hours associates save on supply contracts will not be reassigned to other kinds of legal work.
E. Several other commercial law firms will license similar software within the next few years.