In a precedent based legal system, a single data point may be all that you need, and in general, the goal of legal analytics tools is to help lawyers find the data points that are most relevant and meaningful.Though sensationalistic articles
about robot lawyers might try to convince you otherwise, legal analytics tools don't eliminate the need for case law research.
We're all already sick of hearing
about robot lawyers and how artificial intelligence is the next new thing that will change the practice of law.
Here's the thing: for all the worrying
about robot lawyers, AI is but one tool in repaving the entire legal service world.
This episode might feel a little less glitzy than some of our previous ones
about robot lawyers and virtual teams, but it's full of really great substance on how to build a massive practice.
But a year ago, AI - related conversations were laden with concerns
about robot lawyers taking our jobs and the demise of traditional legal practice.
Not exact matches
«What an elderly person needs to understand
about her care
robot is different from what a safety tester needs — or an accident investigator or a
lawyer or the general public.»
Some have worried
about robot rebellions, but with so many tort
lawyers around to apply the brakes, the bigger question is this: Will humanoid machines enrich our social lives, or will they be a new kind of television, destroying our relationships with real humans?
If you're at all interested in legal technology, you've probably grown tired of the recent influx of fear - mongering articles
about «
robot lawyers» that are going to put legal professionals out of a job.
Lawyers, paralegals, and technologists at ILTACON seemed far less concerned
about robots taking their jobs.
We are not talking
about robots replacing a
lawyer, but adding another tool in the
lawyer's tool belt to make the
lawyer more responsive, efficient and less costly.
The media is more interested in talking
about whether we can replace human
lawyers with
robots than in talking
about what AI really means for law practice.
This is not
about replacing
lawyers with
robots; it's
about freeing up
lawyers to focus on more valuable activities.
Lawyers have not been thinking
about robots as long as cartoonists, science fiction writers (Isaac Asimov's Robot series being perhaps the best known) or engineers (Geoff Simons, Are Computers Alive?
In this episode, we talk to Joshua Browder
about how he built his DoNotPay chatbot — which has already helped thousands an is
about to grow into 300 +
robot lawyers — has made
robot lawyers a reality.
This week I was on This Week in Law to talk
about copyright,
robot lawyers, Star Lord's «Awesome Mix Vol.
This week I was on This Week in Law with Ali Sternberg to talk
about copyright,
robot lawyers, Star Lord's «Awesome Mix Vol.
Ransomware attacks, data disasters,
robot lawyers... Jeff Ton talks
about what's on the horizon for technology in 2018.
In an open - ended question
about the most exciting new technologies, various flavors of artificial intelligence were the most - cited response: «Artificial Intelligence (AI): Machine learning; augmented realities;
robot lawyers; self - driving vehicles; automated attorney workflows; voice automation; processing and recognition; IBM Watson; ROSS.»
Solve these, then start talking and panicking
about robots taking over
lawyers» jobs.
So should
lawyers worry
about being replaced by
robots?
True, I may not know much
about practicing law, but my army of
robot lawyers will crush you and completely revolutionize the legal profession.