How AI And Crowdsourcing Are Remaking The Legal Profession Fast Company The Future Of Business

The innovation upsurge may in part be generational. "If you make partner today in a law firm, and if you were in college with Google, you have different expectations of technology," says Josh Becker, CEO of Lex Machina. The company tracks the activities of lawyers and judges using an artificial intelligence technique called natural language processing (NLP) to analyze court documents and figure out things like how a particular judge tends to rule on particular types of cases. It can also ferret out types of cases, such as patent or trademark, the specific IP a claim asserts, and all the attorneys involved. The startup boom also comes from a new generation of technology.