In this article Mohd. Hashim Miyan discusses potential applications of artificial intelligence in the legal industry.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a method of creating computer software think wisely in the related way the intelligent humans think. Artificial intelligence is an incorporated result of machine learning information science, computer vision, evolutionary computation, data mining, and multi-agent systems.

Artificial Intelligence can decrease the work time of an assignment from 3 hours to 3 minutes. The number of repetitive undertakings that should be possible away with AI and the expansion in proficiency and client administrations is unbelievable. Artificial intelligence can likewise colossally affect the lawful retail showcase by giving more prominent reach and bringing down legitimate expenses by encouraging worldwide access and cross-fringe transactions and contracts.

Artificial Intelligence and Law Statistics

Without a doubt, the legal industry is experiencing an innovative revolution. From online legal research stages to modified applications encouraging common tasks, the legal field has made some amazing progress from the convention-bound and work overwhelming legal industry. The legal business is good to go for another upheaval by the presentation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks. Indian firms have begun putting vigorously in AI frameworks. Yet, the negligible idea of Artificial Intelligence puzzles the greater part.

As of August 2018 in a report “Law Firm in Transition 2018” by the US reporter Altman Weil that there is no question in regard to the adoption of legal technology among the firms surveyed. It also noted some important insights in the report that the firms are facing the biggest challenge today – changing management. 69% of firms expressed that they feel that the rate of change increasing.

AI trends and updates

Specialists concur that AI will keep on having a significantly more noteworthy effect on business and society in general. Its apparently boundless potential for saving both time and money (other than its cool factor) has officially settled AI as a tangible nearness just expected to venture into different zones with included capacities and scholarly learning. Although still in its earliest stages, there is by all accounts no ceasing the AI train:

• Specialists anticipate machines will analyze patients by utilizing distributed information of numerous doctors rather than only one.
• Self-governing self-driving vehicles will some time or another be the standard, driven by AI.
• Artificial intelligence machines will go up against tasks that are excessively commonplace or hazardous, and perform works unreasonably complex for people to process.
• Artificial intelligence will empower disaster response in dangerous circumstances.
• Artificial intelligence will keep on mechanizing warehouse activities and distribution centres.
• Client service agents will be trained to talk all the more adequately on account of machine-learning calculations.
• Publishers and media organizations like CBS and USA Today will utilize AI to transform composed substance into video content with AI video creation.

Most advocates entrusted with settling on acquirement and vital decisions in regards to AI have practically no formal AI preparing or a foundation in information or computer science. That is the reason it’s indispensable to distinguish informational indexes first and decide if AI is a need for your law office. It is likewise fundamental that when utilizing AI, you pick the right device for your particular task.

Current applications of AI typically fall into six broad categories

• Expectation technology to produce figures of litigation results.
• Record computerization to make documents based on information input.
• Due diligence to reveal foundation data, utilized in legal research, contract survey and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
• Legal investigation to decide patterns and examples from past case law, judge’s history and win/misfortune rates.
• Intellectual property for breaking down expansive IP portfolios.
• Electronic charging for naturally registering billable hours utilizing AI.

Potential Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Industry

What’s useful for our professional lives is that we are beginning to use Artificial Intelligence over a wide range of applications: litigation strategy, legal research, predict legal outcomes, help perform due diligence, self-help online legal services, ediscovery, dispute resolution models, review documents, and contract review and analysis.

• Litigation Strategy – Every filing, motion and ruling of the case is recorded in the court dockets, it also contains information on events and outcomes in the litigation. Before the invention of artificial intelligence, the courts typically relied on the institutional or personal experience of a lawyer on a motion. But now based on more data information Artificial intelligence allows much more extensive predictions.  

• Freshservice – An incorporated stage that mechanizes and tracks contract between your IT support group and outsider sellers.

• Legal Research – Legal Research is a way to find effective answers from the data sets. The specific answers of the genuinely well-defined questions reduce legal research in the field of law. It will help to use Artificial Intelligence to improve legal research outcome. Westlaw Answers is an illustration of this method. It can give specific answers to general, well-defined types of legal inquiries- about statutes of limitations or the explicit cause of action.

• Predict Legal Outcomes – To make predictions of the legal outcomes by analyzing data on behalf of Artificial Intelligence is more genuine as compared to human beings. The answers to the questions of the clients relating to the predictions, such as, ‘can I win the case if I go to the court for trial?’ Shall be given by the lawyers with the help of Artificial Intelligence that has accessed the information of the trial by many years.

• Help perform due diligence – At the world level in the law offices, the legal help experts are kept busy handling due diligence to uncover background data on behalf of their clients. Artificial Intelligence instruments can help these legal help experts to conduct their due diligence more proficiently and with more exactness since this work is regularly tedious for humans.

• Self-help online legal services – There are some specific legal questions repeat again and again. The automated systems help online services to the client to deliver answers paired with adequately well-defined data sources. The system responds with a definite answer to the clients of their questions, further consultation with a human lawyer if there any suggestion relating to the question.

Numerous law firms are putting resources into this sort of client facing Artificial Intelligence, but at the same time, it’s being employed in services offered by different kinds of associations: chatbot providers, legal services associations, courts, and other government substances.

• eDiscovery – eDiscovery is the field of legal practice where Artificial Intelligence procedures have gained the most traction. As you know the business tasks are going advanced in all cases, the present associations produce exponentially developing volumes of information – a large portion of it unstructured or semi-organized information as email, composed memoranda and records, spreadsheets, date-books, etc.

• Dispute resolution model – Artificial Intelligence uses effectively in dispute resolution model as to applying mind mechanically with already stored data and the pre-planned answers of the data likely to hold.

• Review documents – As compared to human beings the machines are much faster to store the documents and analyse that data. Artificial Intelligence powered software enhances the proficiency of document examination for legal use and machines can audit reports and flag them as important to a specific case. When a particular sort of document is signified as applicable, machine learning calculations can get the chance to work to discover different records that are likewise significant.

• Contract review and analysis – Many of the law firms review contract on behalf of their clients and identify the risks and issues involved in the contract which impacts negatively on their clients. There are so many contract software created Artificial Intelligence tools specifically for review the contract i.e., Kira Systems, eBrevia and LawGeex etc. which help to draft the contract easily with fewer errors.

Things a legal professional should watch out before using Artificial Intelligence

Advantages

• Error Reduction: If artificial intelligence coded properly it would decrease in mistakes as compared to humans.
• Repetitive Jobs: In the field of uninterested, repetitive tasks and in many professional type work replace humans.
• No Breaks: As compare to humans machines are working for long hours without any break and refreshment.
• Digital Assistants: Profoundly created organizations use avatars that are digital assistants who can interface with the clients, along these lines getting a good deal on Human Resources. These avatars don’t have feelings and can settle on the correct decision in any circumstances.

Disadvantages

• Unemployment: The expanding number of machines prompting joblessness and employer stability issues. As machines are supplanting HR, the rate of individuals losing their jobs will increment.
• High dependence on machines: In the present age, the greater part of the general population is profoundly reliant on Applications like Siri. With such a great amount of help from the machine, if people needn’t bother with their reasoning capacities, these capacities will be step by step decline. In future with the overwhelming utilization of use of computerized reasoning, a human may turn out to be completely reliant on machines, losing their psychological limits.
• Can’t feel Compassion and Sympathy: There is no uncertainty that machines are vastly improved with regards to working effectively however they can’t supplant the human association that makes the group. Machines can’t build up a bond with people.
• High costs: For the latest requirements of the software and the hardware need to be a high-cost expenditure.

Conclusion

These applications are helpful for the young lawyer and for the law students to research in an effective manner and in very less time. Surely it is, there are a great deal of focal points appended to the legal taking care of application that will give you a chance to deal with the due dates that are a piece of any claim and include updates which will be consequently added to your logbook, compose client records every one of your customers subtleties will be organized at one place, facilitates communications, documents recovery and the sky is the limit from there.