Herbert Smith Freehills sets out its legal AI vision

In Artificial Lawyer, Richard Tromans reports that Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has set out its approach to the use of legal AI in a major report published on September 14, 2017. HSF joins a growing number of law firms to now publicly embrace the use of AI and to actively engage with clients to find out what services they want to be supported by machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) technology.

The report is in part a sort of ‘beginner’s guide’ educational work to explain to readers what legal AI is all about, but also more interestingly sets out HSF’s own views on what legal AI will do for the legal sector and how the firm is approaching the subject.

Clients’ views on legal AI

The firm has also published feedback from its clients on how they see the adoption of AI among their legal advisers. And this is perhaps the best bit of the report.

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Posted by on Oct 5, 2017 in Artificial intelligence, BigLaw firms | 0 comments

Deloitte, KPMG & PwC all agree: Is law listening?

Back in October 2015, the inimitable Michael Mills, chief strategy officer and co-founder of Neota Logic, wrote this clever article on LinkedIn: Deloitte, KPMG & PwC all agree: Is law listening? With the rising interest (and concern amongst many BigLaw firms), I am pleased to re-post Deloitte, KPMG & PwC all agree: Is law listening? on Dialogue.

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Posted by on Aug 2, 2017 in Artificial intelligence, Digital strategy, Innovation, Platforms, Technology | 1 comment

AI and the Legal Renaissance

AI and the Legal Renaissance is another very helpful post by Richard Tromans.  

When AI first reached the ears of the legal market some years ago there was a flurry of stories about the end of lawyers. For years afterward and with Pavlov dogs-like automation any mention of legal AI summoned up the panicked refrain: ‘The end of lawyers is coming, the end of lawyers is coming!’

This was until law firms and corporates actually started to make use of legal AI systems, especially in the last two years and even more so last year. The clichéd refrain, now exposed to the cleansing light of real experience, seemed to die away upon contact.

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Posted by on Apr 13, 2017 in Artificial intelligence | 0 comments

Six key questions for understanding legal technology developments

Six key questions for understanding legal technology developments is Peter Campbell’s first post on Dialogue. It is significant for another reason; Peter is a senior leader in a BigLaw firm. We don’t have too many of these folk on Dialogue, and it’s not for want of trying with invitations and suggestions.  

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Posted by on Apr 11, 2017 in Artificial intelligence, BigLaw firms, Digital strategy, Technology | 0 comments

By 2026 computers will not have replaced lawyers

In By 2026 computers will not have replaced lawyers Michael Mills makes a bold statement that “we can say with confidence that by 2026 computers will not have replaced lawyers, but they will have replaced a material chunk of what lawyers do today. To place a bet, I will wager 25%”.

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Posted by on Oct 6, 2016 in Artificial intelligence, Digital strategy, Lawyers | 0 comments

Legal Market Embraces AI: Now Moving Beyond the Early Adopter Phase

The Legal Market Embraces AI: Now Moving Beyond the Early Adopter Phase is the second post on Dialogue from London-based Richard Tromans, publisher of Artificial Lawyer. As Richard points out data of this kind rapidly dates, such is the pace of change. Nevertheless, for many (most?) readers, this is hot news.

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Posted by on Oct 3, 2016 in Artificial intelligence | 1 comment