The move is part of a wider plan for the accountancy giant to ramp
up legal capability around Asia - Pacific, with the aim to boost Asian legal services revenue from $ 75m to between $ 150m and $ 200m and have approximately 500 lawyers in the region within five years.
Not exact matches
French magistrates who were testing case prediction technology by
legal AI start -
up Predictice as part of a Ministry of Justice - supported test project, have said that they see no «additional value» in the system, as compared to the
capabilities they have already.
The benefits here lie in the value that this additional
capability brings to practice groups in respect of: increasing the opportunity for value add exchanges on key business issues with senior client leadership; providing joined
up legal and business services - for example in respect of corporate transactions and restructuring, and complex commercial negotiations in respect of major B2B contracts; and extending the reach of the brand beyond general counsel.
Lawyers,
legal publishers (ala Martindale - Hubbell), national & state bar associations, and state ethics boards get all hung
up in the argument that the rating of lawyers is beyond the
capability of average folks.
«We have come to think of ourselves as a «
Legal Integrator» and sum
up our
capabilities as: Strategy.
Legal AI has been so successful already because the bigger story is always one about positive change, the one about using technology to solve problems, deliver value, open
up new areas of insight and
capability, as well as to boost productivity, not just in the law, but across the entire economy.
We had to think about how writing on a keyboard using software with increasingly sophisticated word processing
capabilities affected the writing process, and whether the ease of composing on - screen changed the writer's relationship to the text.7 We had to confront the ways digital technologies change the way we read and process information.8 As email became ubiquitous, we had to think about how the speed of that type of communication affected the writing process, and what new forms
legal analysis could take when delivered via email.9 As technology simplified the process of embedding images into documents and made possible incorporation of video and other interactive elements, whole new areas of scholarly inquiry have opened
up.10 We have started to address these questions, but we still have so much to learn about how technology impacts how we go about writing
legal documents.
Pioneering Mexican
legal tech start -
up Laboralisto is building a case management platform for employment disputes that will eventually provide the data for case prediction
capabilities.