Artificial Intelligence Helping Lawyers Compete in Today's Data-driven World

AI has already made a lasting impact in the practice of law. Contracts, e-discovery and overall legal research have all changed thanks to AI, but as computers driven by ever-increasing processing power exhibit extraordinarily intelligent behaviour we can only assume such advances are far from over. Whether within the enterprise, partners, customers, opposing litigants or elsewhere, legal assets cannot hide from the likes of Watson, HAL, or other budding or to-be-conceived AI platforms. Empirical evaluation has found that a continuously adaptive machine learning approach can help lawyers keep an eye on ever-changing legal data, according to Jeremy Pickens, senior applied research scientist, Catalyst Repository Systems, which hosts and services document repositories for large-scale discovery and regulatory compliance. "Implementing a continuous protocol involves more than occasionally retraining an existing machine learning classifier, but rather integrating it into the machine learning system at a native level," Pickens says.