When discussing artificial intelligence (AI) in any job-related context, the question of human augmentation or replacement is inevitable. In the present, vendors and young entrepreneurs steer attention to the freedom enabled by automation—for lawyers, this means the freedom to spend more time lawyering and less researching. Meanwhile, media headlines focus around robots taking jobs (of which we ourselves have been guilty). But out in the trenches—whether they be the law firm or corporate legal department—what’s the current status of AI?
In recent months, some law firms have been receptive of AI technology, implemented by Big Law players such as Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Baker & Hostetler, Clifford Chance, and DLA Piper. Latest to the fold is Slaughter and May, a U.K.-based firm which recently signed a deal with technology company Luminance, which is backed by a technology investment fund. According to The Lawyer, the software’s purpose is to employ AI in reading and understanding “hundreds of pages of legal documents every minute.”
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