I think we mentioned part 1 so only polite to make you aware of part two
Here’s the intro to remind you
In the first part of this blog post, we looked at the current benefits we are enjoying from technologies resulting from AI research. We also examined some risks accruing when AI approaches are deployed in legal activities where transparency and justifications are required. In the following lines, we will borrow from a recent study made of the impacts of AI on lawyers employment. We will also try to enumerate potential benefits of AI technologies in our own line of business, legal publishing.
In “Can Robots be Lawyers?” (forthcoming in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, (Spring 2017), currently available on SSRN), Remus and Levy examined the various facets of lawyering and the potential effects of new AI technologies on each of them. In their paper, profs. Remus and Levy try to assess the argument that automation will soon replace much of the work currently done by lawyers. To analyze the effect of technologies on lawyer work, they use a large data set compiling the distribution of lawyers’ time as reflected in the billing they send to their clients. The time use appearing in this data is arranged by Remus and Levy in thirteen larger categories of tasks, such as Document Management, Legal Writing and Advising Clients, and each category is associated with a percentage of a lawyer’s time dedicated to it. Then, the potential impact of current and planned AI systems is assessed for each category of task. Especially pertinent to what I want to do here, they discuss relevant technologies to estimate their automation potential in the various categories of tasks.
