Two major threats that the legal sector is facing at the moment are the growing number of alternative legal services providers (ALSPs) and the entry of the Big 4 accountancy firms – KPMG, Deloitte, EY ...
Ask the Expert: What will be the impact of AI on law firms and their clients in the next ten years? Welcome to The Legal Technologist’s first ‘Ask the Expert’ feature. Our readers ask us ...
Lawyers in a World of Smarter Machines A recent paper (Toward a Phenomenology of Machine-Assisted Legal Work) lays out observations and questions about the emerging socio-technical landscape in which law practice finds itself. Intelligent machines ...
Being Asian, when I was young I was told “When you grow up, you should become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer”. That basically summed up my career options at university. Naturally, one morning, ...
AI gets bad press for the jobs it might eliminate. Judicial jobs are not presently poised to disappear. But AI is definitely reshaping things. In part this is happening because non-lawyers are moving into the ...
Be under no illusion lawyers will not be replaced by robots. There has been an extraordinary amount of hype about legal technology over recent months, but the reality is it is there to assist rather ...
Litigation is a big focus for legal technology companies and start-ups. More and more companies are now developing applications that are capable of analysing litigation matters using AI. There have been great strides in two ...