UK Law firm uses clause game to train AI

Legal Futures (UK) reports

A commercial law firm is recruiting players to take part in the latest round of an online game to train an artificial intelligence (AI) tool which helps lawyers draft contracts.

Andrew Katz, joint managing partner of Buckinghamshire firm Moorcrofts, said the Clause Game was thought up during a brainstorm in the wake of lockdown, when it was clear that face-to-face workshops were not going to happen.

The tool is being developed by a start-up called ContrAI, a sister company of Moorcrofts, launched last winter.

The firm received £200,000 from Innovate UK to develop the AI tool in partnership with Oxford Brookes University, which was awarded £83,000 and is supplying much of the AI expertise, and with information consultancy CP1 Associates.

Mr Katz, chief executive of ContrAI, said there were “good people working on the algorithms”, but the challenge was finding “appropriate training data” for the AI.

Players of the Clause Game are presented with a sequence of contract clauses which they have to categorise as well as they can.

Mr Katz said the scores are calculated by a “secret algorithm”, which he described as “very clever”. He is also head of tech and IP at Moorcrofts, and specialises in free and open source software.

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