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Artificial Intelligence has the potential to immensely modify the manner that human interact,
not solely with the digital world but also with one another, through their work and through
other socioeconomic institutions, for better or for worse.
If we are to ensure that the impact of artificial intelligence will be positive, it will be essential
that all stakeholders participate in the debates surrounding Artificial Intelligence.
The Indian legal sector has seen very little innovation in terms of technology and lawyers
these days still comfortable and relying on the methods and solutions that were designed
years ago. Artificial intelligence can play a big part in changing the way lawyers operate and
the law is looked at in India.
One of the biggest disruptions that can be caused by Artificial Intelligence in law is that in the
field of legal research. The Indian legal system is vast and constantly changing and with the
use of Artificial Intelligence, lawyers can get unparalleled insight into the legal domain within
seconds. Currently to get legal research done a significant number of man-hours are
required and this significantly reduces the profit-making ability of a law firm, however, with
Artificial Intelligence the entire legal fraternity can be balanced. An artificially intelligent
platform for research can get research done in seconds and be it a law firm with 400 lawyers
or single practising lawyer, artificial intelligence can balance the expenditure required for in
legal research making the quality of research uniform. It can provide lawyers with highly
efficient and advanced tools helping lawyers become better in advising clients or litigating.
A slew of Indian legal tech startups i.e. SpotDraft, CaseMine, NearLaw, Pensieve, Practice
League etc are building Natural Language Processing [NLP] based applications and
introducing next-generation legal research platforms that help law firms go beyond simple,
keyword-based research, thereby making it less time-consuming. Many legal startups are
fast rising in Artificial Intelligence research capabilities, some of who have their own AI
research labs.
Future Law Firms would be completely different from what we tend to see these days. Let’s
shed some light on a few characteristics of what the advanced law firms would be like:
1. Innovations in servicing clients:
The way clients are serviced and treated would drastically change in the future. Law Firms
would approach their clients with some innovative ideas and more authentic and economic
legal solutions. Nowadays, in India Law Firms billed their services based on the time is taken
for it to produce the services or in alternative words, the billable hour method, however, this
billing method would go obsolete in the future. To service their clients better, law firms would
look at innovating their pricing strategies and implement say a Performance-Based Pricing
Strategy [PBPS]: As the name suggests, this pricing model would be extremely client friendly
as client shall only pay once they achieve targets and same would strengthen the
professional relations between the clients and Law Firms.
The legal sector has seen the introduction of many new solutions where technology has
improved the efficiency of lawyers, contract analysis, trademark search software, legal
research software and much more. However, none of the AI-based software or program
target to take a lawyer’s job and all the IA based software and programmes are increasing
the authenticity, accuracy of research and analysis and the same are more result oriented
now.
The legal profession is highly driven by analysis, decision making, and representation which
cannot be automated. AI-based software and programmes can reduce a lawyer’s time and
effort considerably and can help the lawyers and firms give a more authentic and result
oriented suggestion to their clients.
The legal industry is still developing in India and looking forward to more IA based and
automated assisting tools and software. However, these IA-based and automated assisting
tools and software are not going to replace the lawyer’s job where analysis, decision making
and stratification is required but would actually make them more efficient & competent while
automating various clerical tasks.
It is believed that artificial intelligence has great scope for Indian Legal Sector and a
combination of artificial intelligence and law will witness immense growth in the near future.
Currently, there are many fields or arena in which artificial intelligence in law is proving to be
useful these are as follows:
Due Diligence -To review a contract, conduct legal research or performing electronic
discovery functions to do due diligence, AI legal software are proving to be helpful and time
effective.
Legal Analytics- Artificial Intelligence provides for the data points from past case laws, and
also provides judgements and precedent law to be used by lawyers in their present cases.
Automation of Documentation- By just submitting the required documents which you wish to
incorporate in your legal document get your documents ready within minutes.
Intellectual Property- Tools of artificial intelligence helps in providing the insights into the IP
portfolios i.e. search and registration of a trademark, Patent, Copyrights etc.
Electronic Billing- Artificial intelligence legal software also helps the lawyer and Firms in
preparing the invoices as per the work done by them. It makes for accurate billing for the
work done by a lawyer. Thus, helps both lawyers and clients.
I hope that the use of Artificial Intelligence would start from what is traditionally known as the
“Bar” and then shall extend itself to the “Bench” wherein even Judges could utilize the power
of NLP Summarisation to gather the sum of the contentions of both parties Judges could
quickly deduce which part contains merit as per the Acts/Statutes and the latest case laws
on the subject of law pertaining to the dispute.
Based on the above discussion I don’t find a single reason for which Artificial Intelligence is
going to take over the jobs of professionals. In fact, IA based program will make the
professionals more productive, efficient, better, more accurate and output focused.