Why the ascendence of AI can benefit young lawyers - Legal Cheek

Ahead of'The future of litigation' on Thursday, RPC's Daniel Wyatt tells Tom Connelly how the Pyrrho case is redefining what it means to be a litigation lawyer Everyone's talking about artificial intelligence (AI), about what it can actually do, about how far it will go, and about whether trainee lawyers and paralegals' jobs are at risk. Daniel Wyatt, a litigation and arbitration specialist at RPC, has witnessed the rise and rise of AI within the legal sector first-hand. Wyatt -- who joined RPC as an associate in 2012 -- recognises that AI's impact on litigation and the legal sector is hugely important but stresses that it is more about a change in focus, not the death knell for junior posts. There will always be a need for junior lawyers. I suspect that the impact of AI will be more a case of re-distributing the work that paralegals and trainees undertake.