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AI and the Law

By Pamela Woldow
November 01, 2016

AI — artificial intelligence — and its relatives: digital research engines, “bots” and other automatons, have made their beachhead in the legal profession, and it really looks like this is gonna change everything.

Yeah, yeah, we know this isn't the first time we and other pundits have predicted that sudden and/or overwhelming forces or technologies — outsourcing, offshoring, legal project management, alternative fee arrangements, expert systems, for example — would demolish the legal profession's historical foundations and fundamentally alter its face, processes and economics. So far, however, the waves from all these tsunamis have only come up to our ankles. For most lawyers, it's business as usual.

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