Legal Tech: AI set to change the face of legal industry

Artificial intelligence (AI), the simulation of human intelligence in machines, is changing the face of the legal industry. Law firms globally are apprehensive about what lies ahead for the industry but changes are already in motion and there is no escape, says Dr Anton Ravindran. Anton is the CEO of SmartLaw, a start-up based in Singapore that utilises AI to assist lawyers in their work. Its online services help lawyers scan through thousands of pages of documents and answer their law-related questions in seconds. It also helps them predict sentencing outcomes, and extract legal precedents and verdicts almost instantly for criminal offence, contested divorce and medical negligence.