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Lawyer-Bots Are Shaking Up Jobs
January 27, 2018
Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they’d better watch out, because artificial intelligence is moving in on the field. As of 2016, there were over 1,300,000 licensed lawyers and 200,000 paralegals in the U.S. Consultancy group McKinsey estimates that 22 percent of a lawyer’s job and 35 percent of a law clerk’s job can be automated, which means that while humanity won’t...
January 27, 2018
Meticulous research, deep study of case law, and intricate argument-building—lawyers have used similar methods to ply their trade for hundreds of years. But they’d better watch out, because artificial intelligence is moving in on the field. As of 2016, there were over 1,300,000 licensed lawyers and 200,000 paralegals in the U.S. Consultancy group McKinsey estimates that 22 percent of a lawyer’s job and 35 percent of a law clerk’s job can be automated, which means that while humanity won’t...
In Possible U.S. First, Law Firm Will Sell AI Software to its Clients
January 26, 2018
In what is said to be a first for a U.S. law firm, a Pennsylvania law firm will sell artificial intelligence software directly to its clients in the health care industry to enable them to better review, analyze and negotiate contracts. The Pittsburgh-based law firm Horty Springer is partnering with the AI software company LegalSifter to offer the product directly to hospitals and health systems. Initially it will allow clients to review business associate agreements required by HIPAA privacy...
January 26, 2018
In what is said to be a first for a U.S. law firm, a Pennsylvania law firm will sell artificial intelligence software directly to its clients in the health care industry to enable them to better review, analyze and negotiate contracts. The Pittsburgh-based law firm Horty Springer is partnering with the AI software company LegalSifter to offer the product directly to hospitals and health systems. Initially it will allow clients to review business associate agreements required by HIPAA privacy...
Gifford on the Role of Technology in Changing Tort Law
January 25, 2018
Don Gifford has posted to SSRN Technological Triggers to Tort Revolutions: Steam Locomotives, Autonomous Vehicles, and Accident Compensation. The abstract provides: Waves of technological change explain the most important transformations of American tort law. In this Article, I begin by examining historical instances of this linkage. Following the Industrial Revolution, for example, machines, no longer humans and animals, powered production. With greater force, locomotives and other machines...
January 25, 2018
Don Gifford has posted to SSRN Technological Triggers to Tort Revolutions: Steam Locomotives, Autonomous Vehicles, and Accident Compensation. The abstract provides: Waves of technological change explain the most important transformations of American tort law. In this Article, I begin by examining historical instances of this linkage. Following the Industrial Revolution, for example, machines, no longer humans and animals, powered production. With greater force, locomotives and other machines...
Lawyers’ Stress is Increasing
January 22, 2018
From Progressive Law Practice: Attorneys are more stressed out at work than they were nearly a decade ago, according to a recent survey from Robert Half Legal. Of the lawyers interviewed, 42% cited reduced stress levels as the one aspect of their job they would like to change. That's up 11 percentage points from the last time the survey was conducted in 2008. Further, 22% of those surveyed called for fewer hours at work and more personal time as the lone aspect they would change, down 8 percentage...
January 22, 2018
From Progressive Law Practice: Attorneys are more stressed out at work than they were nearly a decade ago, according to a recent survey from Robert Half Legal. Of the lawyers interviewed, 42% cited reduced stress levels as the one aspect of their job they would like to change. That's up 11 percentage points from the last time the survey was conducted in 2008. Further, 22% of those surveyed called for fewer hours at work and more personal time as the lone aspect they would change, down 8 percentage...
Playing with the Data: What Legal Scholars Should Learn About Machine Learning
January 19, 2018
Legal scholars have begun to focus intently on machine learning — the name for a large family of techniques used for sophisticated new forms of data analysis that are becoming key tools of prediction and decision-making. We think this burgeoning scholarship has tended to treat machine learning too much as a monolith and an abstraction, largely ignoring some of its most consequential stages. As a result, many potential harms and benefits of automated decision-making have not yet been articulated,...
January 19, 2018
Legal scholars have begun to focus intently on machine learning — the name for a large family of techniques used for sophisticated new forms of data analysis that are becoming key tools of prediction and decision-making. We think this burgeoning scholarship has tended to treat machine learning too much as a monolith and an abstraction, largely ignoring some of its most consequential stages. As a result, many potential harms and benefits of automated decision-making have not yet been articulated,...
CodeX is Connecting the Artificial Intelligence and Legal Communities
January 14, 2018
Best described as an incubator of ideas, CodeX, the Center for Legal Informatics, is a joint venture between Stanford Law School and Stanford Computer Science department. “We are an inter-disciplinary research centre,” says executive director Roland Vogl (pictured). “Our mission is to bring information technology to the legal system to make it more efficient and to empower every stakeholder. We understand there’s a lot of interest in helping lawyers do their work more efficiently.” Started...
January 14, 2018
Best described as an incubator of ideas, CodeX, the Center for Legal Informatics, is a joint venture between Stanford Law School and Stanford Computer Science department. “We are an inter-disciplinary research centre,” says executive director Roland Vogl (pictured). “Our mission is to bring information technology to the legal system to make it more efficient and to empower every stakeholder. We understand there’s a lot of interest in helping lawyers do their work more efficiently.” Started...
Lexis Advance Now Integrates Attorney Analytics from Lex Machina
January 13, 2018
When LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the the plan was to integrate Lex Machina’s analytics into various LexisNexis products and, in particular, its Lexis Advance legal research platform. Last January, it took the first step in that direction when it integrated judge analytics into Lexis Advance, and later in the year it added integration for law firm analytics. Yesterday LexisNexis rolled out the third such integration, attorney analytics....
January 13, 2018
When LexisNexis acquired the legal analytics platform Lex Machina in November 2015, the the plan was to integrate Lex Machina’s analytics into various LexisNexis products and, in particular, its Lexis Advance legal research platform. Last January, it took the first step in that direction when it integrated judge analytics into Lexis Advance, and later in the year it added integration for law firm analytics. Yesterday LexisNexis rolled out the third such integration, attorney analytics....
How Robots May Make Radiologists’ Jobs Easier, Not Redundant
January 6, 2018
Artificial intelligence programs that diagnose disease by analyzing images still require human judgment Earlier this month a team of computer scientists at Stanford University announced that their artificial intelligence program had diagnosed pneumonia on chest X-rays more accurately than human radiologists. “Should radiologists be worried about their jobs?” one of the scientists, Andrew Ng,tweeted. Probably not. In fact, they ought to be relieved: AI is more likely to make...
January 6, 2018
Artificial intelligence programs that diagnose disease by analyzing images still require human judgment Earlier this month a team of computer scientists at Stanford University announced that their artificial intelligence program had diagnosed pneumonia on chest X-rays more accurately than human radiologists. “Should radiologists be worried about their jobs?” one of the scientists, Andrew Ng,tweeted. Probably not. In fact, they ought to be relieved: AI is more likely to make...
Citi Private Law Firm Group Predicts Only Modest Growth in 2018
January 2, 2018
In contrast to a recent regional report that reflects great optimism from law firms about the coming new year (at least with respect to hiring), Citi's annual Private Law Firm Group report for 2018, which reflects a more national perspective, is not quite so sanguine when it comes to what the new year might hold. The Citi report, which is generally targeted at larger law firms, predicts, among other things, the following: Modest revenue growth in 2018 with an increase in profits-per-partner...
January 2, 2018
In contrast to a recent regional report that reflects great optimism from law firms about the coming new year (at least with respect to hiring), Citi's annual Private Law Firm Group report for 2018, which reflects a more national perspective, is not quite so sanguine when it comes to what the new year might hold. The Citi report, which is generally targeted at larger law firms, predicts, among other things, the following: Modest revenue growth in 2018 with an increase in profits-per-partner...
Bob Ambrogi joins LexBlog as Editor-in-Chief and Publisher
December 24, 2017
Christmas comes a few days early at LexBlog with the announcement that lawyer and leading legal journalist, Robert Ambrogi, is joining LexBlog as our publisher and editor-in-chief. Bob is one of the better known legal journalists in the country. He served as editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal and was founding editor of Lawyers USA. Bob’s blog, LawSites, may be the most widely followed and respected legal technology publication in the country. More than one entrepreneur has told...
December 24, 2017
Christmas comes a few days early at LexBlog with the announcement that lawyer and leading legal journalist, Robert Ambrogi, is joining LexBlog as our publisher and editor-in-chief. Bob is one of the better known legal journalists in the country. He served as editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal and was founding editor of Lawyers USA. Bob’s blog, LawSites, may be the most widely followed and respected legal technology publication in the country. More than one entrepreneur has told...
