Artificial Intelligence in Law – The State of Play in 2015? Legal IT Insider

The other day, a search for "artificial intelligence in law" produced 86,400 results from just the News section of Google's vast index. From the Web as a whole, 32,800,000 results and from Videos – 261,000, beginning with Jude Law's role as Gigolo Joe in the movie A.I. (thank you, RankBrain). The first News story was "Law firm bosses envision Watson-type computers replacing young lawyers," reporting on the answers to one question in the recent Altman & Weil survey of law firm leaders (page 82). As wittily argued by Ryan McClead, "the question is flawed on many levels [and] … it's time to cut the hysteria surrounding artificial intelligence in law." But we need to parse the pile a bit.