Judges in England and Wales will be able to use the AI chatbot to help write their legal rulings, the Telegraph reports. This is despite ChatGPT being prone to making up bogus cases, and the tool even admitting that it'can make mistakes' on its landing page. ChatGPT, already described by one British judge as'jolly useful', is increasingly infiltrating the legal industry, leading to concern among some experts. The Judicial Office's new official guidance, issued to thousands of judges, points out that AI can be used for summarising large amounts of text or in administrative tasks. These qualify as basic work tasks, but more salient parts of the process – such as conducting legal research or undertaking legal analysis – must not be offloaded to chatbots, the guidance claims.

In a report released this week, Goldman Sachs predicted that AI advances could cause 300 million jobs, representing roughly 18% of the global workforce, to be automated in some way. OpenAI also recently released its own study with the University of Pennsylvania, which claimed that ChatGPT could affect over 80% of the jobs in the US. The numbers sound scary, but the wording of these reports can be frustratingly vague. "Affect" can mean a whole range of things, and the details are murky. People whose jobs deal with language could, unsurprisingly, be particularly affected by large language models like ChatGPT and GPT-4.

Enter Harvey, today's golden child that lives at the intersection of technology and law. Harvey is an A.I. platform that can help lawyers perform legal tasks in areas such as due diligence, litigation, and compliance. Described as "the innovative artificial intelligence platform built on a version of Open AI's latest models enhanced for legal work," legaltech startup Harvey, the self-styled "generative A.I. for elite law firms," is about to play in the big leagues. Harvey is being rolled out for use by 3,500 lawyers in 43 offices of Allen & Overy, the seventh largest law firm in the world and part of London's "Magic Circle." I've watched legaltech evolve from the inside for decades.

David Wakeling, head of London-based law firm Allen & Overy's markets innovation group, first came across law-focused generative AI tool Harvey in September 2022. He approached OpenAI, the system's developer, to run a small experiment. A handful of his firm's lawyers would use the system to answer simple questions about the law, draft documents, and take first passes at messages to clients. The trial started small, Wakeling says, but soon ballooned. Around 3,500 workers across the company's 43 offices ended up using the tool, asking it around 40,000 queries in total.

Since ChatGPT's launch last month, the newest chatbot model from artificial intelligence research non-profit OpenAI has been touted as "sophisticated" and even "magical." The chatbot is a major stepping stone in generative AI, and likely has significant practical uses for legal professionals. But what do lawyers need to know about it before they can harness its potential? Most attorneys who responded to Bloomberg Law's most recent Legal Ops & Tech Survey feel that harnessing legal tech is important to meet the demands of their clients. However, advanced AI models such as ChatGPT come with challenges that many attorneys likely don't know about or haven't thoroughly considered.

Everyone should consider learning more about Artificial Intelligence Maturity and the factors that impact this development. Although AI has been around since the 1950s, it seems to be going through an accelerated growth spurt on its way to full maturity, and this transition phase appears to be making some people a little nervous. Those nerves will undoubtedly calm as specific AI technology gets closer to maturity and as additional industries become more comfortable with AI. To get there, it's important to acknowledge AI's strengths and weaknesses. For instance, there are real and valid concerns around AI's transparency and trustworthiness, but there are also undeniable benefits in the form of measurable and significant efficiency gains and valuable insights for better decision-making.

Industries and processes across the globe are embracing new technologies to increase efficiency and deliver faster and accurate outcomes. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have recently taken the world by storm with their advancements in delivering impactful and insightful results. The legal industry is not any different. The changing customer needs and technology […]

Legl is a fast-growing, vertical B2B SaaS platform with a mission to bring the legal industry into the 21st century. We closed our Series B (May 2022), and we are scaling quickly on our next phase of growth. Our vision is to be part of a structural change in the legal industry so that firms, as well as their clients, have a better experience of accessing legal services. We launched in October 2019 and in the short time since then have built a large law firm customer base who love our product and our team. We have an agile, ambitious and collaborative team.

As a legal technology company, Legal Interact is invested in not only solving some of the legal industry's biggest challenges, but in using the best technologies and people to do so. Simply put, artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that deals with creating intelligent computer systems, which can perform tasks that ordinarily require human intelligence. AI has already become a daily part of our lives and will eventually permeate every sphere of our professional and personal existence. At Legal Interact we have focused on an area of AI called natural language understanding (NLU) that deals with teaching computers to interpret and understand human language. Within Matter Manager, we can translate any document to English.

Key technologies – including AI, machine learning, and digital video conferencing – are proven to improve the speed, effectiveness, and efficiency of lawyers, allowing them to focus on their core business. While technology will "never be a substitute for the application of judgment and ethics that lawyers deliver to their clients and was never meant to do so, it can free up resources and time for more complex, value-added work," Smith says, noting that those that choose to ignore this fact risk finding themselves at a competitive disadvantage. Backed by a panel of leading experts including Helen Voudouris, Director of Online Product Management, LexisNexis Canada Inc.; Charles E. Gluckstein, Managing Partner, Gluckstein Lawyers; Susan Wortzman, Partner, McCarty Tetrault LLP; Al Hounsell, Senior Innovation Lawyer, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP; and Natalie Munroe, Chief, Osler Works - Transactional & Legal Operations, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, the webinar will explore the latest technological trends and identify ways to thrive in an evolving legal industry. The panel is set to tackle topics such as the role of automation and AI in driving productivity, digitizing knowledge management, and ultimately how new technologies are forcing firms to rethink how they operate. "This webinar will be an excellent opportunity for lawyers to get real-world examples from practicing lawyers on how the newest technology was implemented, how processes are managed, and the benefits to the organization," Smith says.