Law Firm Hires AI 'Digital Lawyer'

Many of us fear that the machines will slowly take over and from the looks of it, there might be a time when they will even replace humans in the courtroom, perhaps making it harder for fresh law graduates to find a job straight out of law school. That can be the norm when law firms start hiring "lawyers" powered by artificial intelligence like veteran law firm BakerHostetler did recently. BakerHostetler has "hired" ROSS, it's first digital attorney, who will be performing duties as a legal researcher at the law firm. ROSS is attached with the firm's bankruptcy team and will be helping them with researching cases and facts as they build their cases. This may not be the only law firm that sees that digital lawyers powered by artificial intelligence can prove to be more competent researchers.