AI Is Our Friend: Using Advancements in Technology Ethically and Responsibly
Technology is here to stay and its role in how we lawyer will only grow. But it is important that we as lawyers learn how to use and embrace existing and future technology responsibly without shirking our professional and ethical responsibilities.
May 30, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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E-DiscoveryOver the last year, we have been inundated with stories about the risks, benefits and effects of using artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace generally and as lawyers, specifically. We all read about the New York lawyers who were sanctioned for submitting a legal brief that included six fictitious case citations generated by ChatGPT. We have been cautioned by courts and others about the dangers of relying on AI, some courts are even requiring disclosure of AI usage by attorneys when making a written submission. However, technology and AI have played active roles in legal research and writing for years. Research platforms, such as Westlaw, integrate AI technology in its searching capabilities, and both Westlaw and Lexis have invested substantially to further develop AI products such as Lexis+ AI which assists with legal drafting. In the discovery context, e-discovery platforms use, and have used for years, technology-assisted review (TAR) in the document review process, which uses techniques such as predictive coding (the ranking of documents based on how potentially relevant they are to the matter), filtering and email threading to automate and streamline parts of document review. Technology is here to stay and its role in how we lawyer will only grow. But it is important that we as lawyers learn how to use and embrace existing and future technology responsibly without shirking our professional and ethical responsibilities.
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