As machines become more intelligent it is inevitable that the machine will move up the legal vertical and do more replacing
of human lawyers than supporting.
By «survey fuel» I mean, of course,
human lawyers in BC capable of clicking through a 10 - minute survey.
There is no such thing as robot lawyers, and even if there were, they are not coming to take jobs away
from human lawyers.
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.
The third and current phase is the stage of disruption in which technology takes on more of the tasks historically done by
intelligent human lawyers.
In the next 1 - 5 years, I think natural language processing is going to really start identify
where human lawyers provide real value.
Our goal is not to replace lawyers, but to make the
limited human lawyer resources more valuable by concentrating their work where it can have the greatest impact.
One might think that the total volume of work left for
human lawyers decreased as computers took over a greater share of the process.
It's clear that Chinese legal industry very much views AI as a transformative force, with the central idea is very much about sharing the workload
of human lawyers.
No debate on new technology in legal services is complete without a prediction that artificial intelligence and smart contracts will remove the need
for human lawyers — or even laws.
Despite the early enthusiasm the concept of computers taking over legal reasoning tasks
from human lawyers has yet to become reality.
In other words, in an Internet of Things where Code is Contract combines with Artificial Intelligence, the idea of
using human lawyers to wrangle for weeks over an excessively complicated agreement will seem as dated as paying a clerk by the word to fill out a parchment with beautiful but unreadable calligraphy to record a simple sale of sheep from one farmer to another.
Luminance CEO Emily Foges on why AI is about
making human lawyers more effective - rather than replacing them
LISA is also the first law robot to provide unbiased and objective assistance to both parties, allowing users to avoid having to engage traditional
human lawyers on either side.
In the headlines this week is a story of an Artificial Intelligence system
outperforming human lawyers in reviewing non-disclosure agreements.
LISA was developed
by human lawyers with decades of entrepreneurial, corporate and commercial legal experience.
And while the
best human lawyer did manage to equal the AI in terms of speed, overall it was an absolute washout.
When ROSS Intelligence — described on its website as «an AI lawyer that
helps human lawyers research faster and focus on advising clients» — got funding, Ovbiagele left college and moved to California, and the company is now headquartered in San Francisco.
This «decomposition» process will reduce costs and prices, even
if human lawyers remain in charge of the process.
OUR MISSION - Focus on making access to legal services cost effective, time saving, insightful and transparent for consumers and businesses to acquire their legal needs by using technology wherever possible in the first instance before moving on to
garner human lawyer support, if at all necessary or desired.
Chrissie Lightfoot, LISA's co-founder put it this way: «From day one we have been focused on making access to legal services cost effective, time saving and transparent for consumers and businesses to acquire their legal needs by using technology wherever possible in the first instance before moving on to garner
human lawyer support, if at all necessary or desired.
Artificial Intelligence
vs. Human Lawyers: Artificial Intelligence — 94 % Accurate, Humans — 85 % Accurate
The platform to win the race will be the one that strips out most of the actual legal work (research, drafting, etc.) and replaces it with technology, while
empowering human lawyers to focus on advising, guiding, and counseling their clients.
But for now,
human lawyers still have to make judgements about the information that computers retrieve and they still have to ask the right questions.
That template confidentiality agreement, delivered as a form for you to fill in, purchased from the shelves of your local retail store, can be out of date, or maybe you use basic document automation processes online discovered when searching after a long day of client and investor meetings, which
lacks human lawyer guidance and legal insight?
That's why we developed LISA, the world's first impartial and unbiased AI - powered robot lawyer that provides objective support, delivers bespoke, legally sound non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) at absolutely no cost for users on opposite sides of a legal matter to self - help together; negating two sets of
human lawyers ergo two sets of time and cost.
At the moment there are a lot of people who are so alienated by the impenetrable nature of the legal world and
human lawyer behaviour that they're not seeking any sort of protection.
eBrevia, for example has found that its accuracy in document review is at least 10 % higher than using
human lawyers alone, while in terms of overall time for review there is a reduction of 30 % to 90 %, with the ability of the software to extract data from over 50 multi-page documents in less than a minute.
This suggests that when dealing with A.I. solutions, like hiring a
new human lawyer to a team, interaction and use brings out trust and reliance.
Or, if we turn this around to focus on new value creation, as Artificial Lawyer tries to do when in a speaking slot in order to get beyond the efficiency
vs human lawyer dynamic, how much value was created?
If you need to create your very own confidentiality agreement or NDA, without the need for
expensive human lawyers, LISA can help...
It is quite possible that one day law firms will hand many jobs over to A.I. systems, and retain only a few high -
earning human lawyers at the top of the pile.
Even if it does, silver linings may be found in better access to justice via intelligent machines, and a renewed focus of
human lawyers on expanding access to justice.
Ludwig Bull, scientific director at CaseCrunch, the legal AI company which organised the contest, said: «These results show that if the question is defined precisely, machines are able to compete with and sometimes
outperform human lawyers.»
Going forward in order to provide legal value to disgruntled consumers and businesses that currently
use human lawyers, and solve the problem of the legally unrepresented, underserved and neglected, the answer lies in solutions like LISA; a hybrid human and machine system knowledge engineered with reasoning, insight and judgment built in.
LISA was created
by human lawyers from the United Kingdom who have decades of entrepreneurial, corporate and commercial legal experience.
That means that even
if human lawyers have a shrinking role vis - a-vis computers in the discovery process, they will be needed to double check the computer's work in a larger number of cases.
One particular remark that drew positive reactions from the crowd was that AI technology is not making «robot lawyers,» rather, it's making
human lawyers less robotic by taking on repetitive tasks.
Despite the strides in technology and artificial intelligence, it is hard to imagine a world entirely devoid
of human lawyers.
There will always be a role
for human lawyers, but the firm's operations will all be powered by software.
LawGeex — an Israel - based tech company whose artificial intelligence (AI)- based document review software automates the process of identifying risky provisions in contracts — has announced the results of a peer - reviewed study that compared artificial intelligence to
human lawyers in the review of standard business contracts called non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).