There is no such thing
as robot lawyers, and even if there were, they are not coming to take jobs away from human lawyers.
London, UK, 30th August 2017 Love is in the air
as robot lawyer LISA partners with junior clerk Billy Bot Legal Futures (featured: interviewee)
Not exact matches
Joshua Browder is world famous
as the man who created
robot lawyers to get people out of parking tickets.
That sort of non-legal approach to legal problems leads to radical start - ups like DoNotPay, which describes itself
as the world's first
robot lawyer.
DoNotPay has launched the UK's first
robot lawyer as an experiment.
«
robot lawyers» etc,
as readers will know I always try to avoid the use of the term «
robot» in relation to AI tech, but in this case it seems to have been unavoidable.
The director of legal services innovation at an unnamed top - 50 firm puts this into everyday context: «I see
robots as a massive everyday opportunity for the firm to do what our
lawyers already value, which is to think and to have space to think.
ROSS, sometimes referred to
as the «
robot»
lawyer, was merely a glint in his developers» eye when Apple gave birth to the iPhone.
The BBC described Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)'s LONald
as a
robot that could potentially replace
lawyers.
In fact, many specific tasks that have a sufficient degree of repetition can already be automated,
as the advent of
robot lawyers and legal chatbots has proven.
Concepts such
as the demise of BigLaw, the emergence of NewLaw, the rise Legal Processing Outsourcing, artificial intelligence and IBM's «Watson» supercomputer rendering
lawyers less valuable than
robots.
Two years ago, Joshua Browder launched his DoNotPay chatbot
as «the world's first
robot lawyer» to help people fight parking tickets.
Oscar Strawczynski of Feldman
Lawyers in Toronto looks to a brave new world: «Oudin and Wood: It's case law like this that makes me think we are not going to be replaced by the
robots soon; at least
as litigators.
The website is the brain child of nineteen - year - old Joshua Browder, who refers to it
as the world's first
robot lawyer.
The future of
robot lawyers is now one step closer
as firms adopt the ROSS platform.
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?
Some see automation and «
robot lawyers»
as an existential threat.
As the past ten years have shown,
lawyers are not immune to our future
robot overlords.
While a few law firms have definitely embraced the «hiring of a
robot lawyer» trend,
robots are far from being
as sophisticated
as lawyers at practicing law.
And so, what I am interested in,
as a buyer of legal services, is HOW are ROSS and LONALD and whatever
robot lawyer pops up next, going to benefit me, directly?
His hacked - together
robot lawyer works by guiding users through a series of questions, like whether or not parking signs were clearly visible when they parked,
as part of the appeals process.