In a keynote speech to the global legal profession, English Law Society CEO, Catherine Dixon, has praised the benefits of AI and urged lawyers to embrace the new wave of advanced legal tech.

The comments were part of a speech at the International Bar Association‘s annual gathering in Washington DC this week and are one of the most forthright and supportive statements on legal AI from a representative or regulatory body for lawyers.

Dixon highlighted that the key benefits of AI and new legal tech were that lawyers could become more efficient and that ‘some procedural work … can be commoditised’. She added that AI would help to reduce costs.

‘Technology can play a facilitative role in helping law firms achieve productivity-driven growth by increasing accuracy, saving time and driving efficiencies,’ she said.

In particular she mentioned legal AI companies Kira and the recently launched Luminance. She also noted that e-discovery software was becoming far more advanced through TAR (technology assisted review), which was now of increasing importance to the UK courts following the groundbreaking Pyrrho case that greenlit its use this year. Dixon also kindly mentioned research by Artificial Lawyer into the growing number of law firms publicly recognising their use or piloting of legal AI systems.

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