Comment by btbuildem
4 years ago
100% lawyers have noticed. For example: they've been trying to automate discovery for a while now. I'm sure the new LLMs are making waves in those circles.
But also: lawyering is good money, and they're adept at navigating the law. So breaking into that space with some sort of "tech disruption" has a high chance of getting you (metaphorically) dismembered.
Yes, my firm is investing loads into AI and other tech solutions to common legal problems. I first worked with eDiscovery software eight years ago. More recent trends including using machine learning to (partially) automate legal due diligence.
Liability is the issue, as you say. If the software you use fails to flag an obvious issue that you consequently fail to flag to your client, you are in trouble, and the software provider won't be indemnifying you for it.
One of my predictions is that this will lead to an AI arms race. The front line won't be weird melty pictures and code that doesn't work but looks like it might, but increasingly expensive automated suits by legal AIs against other legal AIs.
This will - ironically - create the Singularity. And then we're all either in jail, bankrupt, or legally executed.
I'd love to talk to you about it if you're willing. Email's on my profile.
Yep. My buddy actually worked at making one practice less paper dependent. If there is a place, where tech did not make a big impact yet ( and some of it for a reason like confidentiality ), this is it. Naturally, doing it well will be hard ( and suddenly finding a lawyer that knows what he/she is doing tech wise will be about as bad as .. any other company on the planet ).