Étiquette : Legal Tech

13
Mar2019
par
Katarina Daniels
et
Anastasia Greenberg

AI-powered Legal Tech in a Human World: Should Justice be Served by a Robot?

By Anastasia Greenberg, Student, McGill University With Katarina Daniels, Lawyer, Liaison Librarian at Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University Imagine a world where robots are gainfully employed in the legal field. Traditionally, most legal associate work involves monotonous tasks such as sifting through hundreds of pages of documents to build a case, searching through thousands of results in a legal database, and drafting contract after contract with repetitive formats. While not exactly physical “robots”, artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal field promises to change all that by training computers to perform routine legal tasks with greater precision than human lawyers. A type of AI, Machine Learning, is the method behind Google’s search algorithms, driverless cars, and DeepMind’s success in beating the world champion in the game AlphGo. Now, AI has entered the legal field with great force. In 2018, investment in legal tech reached over $1.6 billion, representing a whopping… Lire la suite

11
Mar2019

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Legal Tech

   By Audrey Bernasconi, Student, McGill University With Katarina Daniels, Lawyer, Liaison Librarian at Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University Whether you are browsing through your customized movie selection on Netflix, finding the quickest route to your destination on Google Maps, or reviewing job listings sent to you by LinkedIn, you are interacting with machine learning and algorithmic technology. Beyond its day-to-day influence on our lives, these technologies, broadly encompassed under the term “computer-assisted digital technologies”, have disrupted long established ways of working across several industries, including the legal sector. From legal research, contract drafting to due diligence review, litigation strategy, and criminal sentencing, AI applications have considerably impacted virtually all areas of the law, for better or worse. The good Though the legal sector is traditionally seen as being averse to change, there are compelling incentives to quickly embrace Legal Tech solutions. Indeed, Legal Tech promises to make legal… Lire la suite