In the words of one technology analyst, the legal profession hasn't really changed since the time of Charles Dickens. And like the never-ending Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit in Dickens' Bleak House, today's courtrooms are overburdened and justice often frustratingly slow. Advances in artificial intelligence are changing these long-entrenched realities, and changing them fast. But just what does this mean for lawyers, judges, and the many individuals involved in court cases and other legal proceedings each year? The jury trial is just one aspect of the U.S. judicial system (the courts) and the legal industry in general (the firms).

Yet another announcement from a global behemoth declaring itself committed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning. In this article reported by the Irish Times and international press, it is notable that the consequence of American bank, JP Morgan Chase's commitment to AI is the redundancy of banking lawyers in mundane document or contract review work. They say 360,000 hours of lawyers billable work goes up in a puff of smoke because AI replaces lawyers reviewing banking documents. A headline to make any middle class professional quake in their boots. AI definitely has a role to play in the mass review of standard contracts.