Walmart's AI solution makes life easier for in-house counsel

Imagine a world where the boring part of your job is automated and you get to focus on and do more of the interesting things – the things that actually inspired you to study your subject in the first place. That's now a dream come true for lawyers at Walmart. The company has invested in a new artificial intelligence tool by LegalMation. Alan Bryan, Walmart's senior associate GC of legal operations and outside counsel management told the Corporate Counsel that the technology is automated to create first drafts of answers to litigation and to draft the initial round of discovery requests, each in about two minutes. This could equate to shaving off 10 hours of attorney time on each lawsuit, according to LegalMation's estimates.