Artificial intelligence tools have become prevalent in legal practice, particularly in eDiscovery. That doesn't mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. Despite their benefits, many legal organizations have been hesitant to implement AI tools. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey, 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn't know enough about AI to speak to their firms' interest. While the survey showed that larger firms were more likely to adopt AI tools, that leaves a lot of room for smaller firms to use AI to their advantage.

RPA in law practice has reduced costs by 20-40percent while reducing human error and rising enforcement. Fremont, CA: Law firms are now under and forced to keep pace with the recent digital transformation trends and improvements. As a result, the industry has provided consumers with faster services at a lower cost. It means that law firms and practitioners in this field must change their working methods and become more effective.Traditionally, the legal industry always opposed technical advancements, mainly for cultural purposes. However, in response to consumer demands, the sector is now taking critical measures to catch up.

Legal technology can be a highly beneficial for law practices. In fact, most now rely upon it in some fashion. Practice management software, appointment scheduling software, time and billing software, client portals, and digital contract management are all common forms of legal tech. Yet, there are some forms of technology, such as a law firm chatbot, that still cause quite a bit of fear in the legal industry. However, much like more commonly adopted options, a law firm chatbot could mean more money for your law practice because it can improve efficiency.

There are generally two schools of thought when it comes to the effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of the law practice. One faction believes that robots and all AI are going to render lawyers largely redundant or drastically reduce their numbers. On the other side are those who say artificial intelligence is vastly overblown, that it's just a fad and that it will not have that big of an impact on the legal industry. Attorney Mark A. Cohen, a leading authority on the delivery of legal services and an early adoptee of technology in the legal industry, comes down somewhere in the middle. "I say AI is not going to replace lawyers but instead cause lawyers to work differently in the marketplace than they have before,'' he explained during a panel discussion on the ABA-sponsored webinar "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law Practice." Cohen was joined on the panel by Noory Bechor, Anna Ronkainen and Nicole Black. Sharon D. Nelson served as program moderator. While law firms are slow to embrace this new technology, AI is already having an impact on firms in the U.S. and around the world. Robots or machines are being utilized to do tedious, time-consuming tasks like collecting data, searching records, going through old cases, verifying facts, etc.-- work currently done by junior lawyers and paralegals. Remember the IBM computer Watson, which debuted on the TV game show Jeopardy some years back? That was AI in its purest form, said Cohen. Well, Watson spun off a son called ROSS, which a number of law firms now employ, including Baker & Hostetler, Lathan & Watkins, Dentons, K&L Gates, Bryan Cave and Womble Carlyle. "Robots are doing some of these repetitive, mundane tasks," said Cohen, founder & CEO of Legal Mosaic LLC in Washington, D.C. "This does not mean that those lawyers who were doing those tasks are going to be out of a job, but they are going to be liberated to do other types of things." Nelson, an attorney and president of the digital forensics, information technology and information security firm Sensei Enterprises, Inc., in Fairfax, Va., disagreed somewhat with Cohen on jobs not being lost. She pointed to a December 2016 report by Accenture, which said 5 percent of its workforce (20,000 full-time jobs) is no longer human. "Accenture is not a law firm but it provides high-level consulting, technology services and strategic planning for more than 75 percent of the Fortune 500 companies,'' Nelson said.

CES is the world's biggest tech show, focusing on the business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50 years -- the global stage where next-generation innovations are introduced to the marketplace. If you want to know what gadgets and tech will be changing your life in the near future, it is the place to be every year, in January, in Las Vegas, Nevada. New tech happens here; but, it doesn't stay here..This year, Artificial Intelligence (I hate the term, but it is what it is), was the overarching theme of CES 2018. Smart things were everywhere, and the advances in AI were evident.

Kevin Ashley is a Professor of Law and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science. He received a B.A. from Princeton University, New Jersey, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts. A visiting scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, NSF Presidential Young Investigator and Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, he is co-Editor-in-Chief of Artificial Intelligence and Law and teaches in the University of Bologna Erasmus Mundus doctoral program in Law, Science and Technology.

General artificial intelligence attempts to solve this problem using a traditional vision of artificial intelligence. This solution is akin to the vision often depicted in fictional books and movies. Hard artificial intelligence solves the problem by creating a computer that thinks like a human. This solution is to create artificial intelligence that thinks and acts like a reasonable person under the circumstance by creating a machine with a general intelligence that is broadly applicable to whatever problem might be presented. Conceptually speaking, this is identical to how human intelligence works.

General artificial intelligence attempts to solve this problem using a traditional vision of artificial intelligence. This solution is akin to the vision often depicted in fictional books and movies. Hard artificial intelligence solves the problem by creating a computer that thinks like a human. This solution is to create artificial intelligence that thinks and acts like a reasonable person under the circumstance by creating a machine with a general intelligence that is broadly applicable to whatever problem might be presented. Conceptually speaking, this is identical to how human intelligence works.

And if you must also know, my firm is also contemplating hiring one of such robots too, just that we won't be naming it Ross,but Kunle. Anyway it's still a rumour .But for goodness sake, organisations don't get people employed because they want to reduce unemployment, they get people employed because they need to get some work done. That's their concern, and so it really doesn't matter to them whether it's a real or artificial person that gets the job done. All they want is for the job to be done. And if a robot can do the job more than a human, heck, they would be hiring the damn robot without batting an eye.