An AI ‘Spell-Check for Lawyers,’ But Will They Trust It?

March 7, 2018 Jonathan Nessler

An AI ‘Spell-Check for Lawyers,’ But Will They Trust It?

https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2018/03/06/an-ai-spell-check-for-lawyers-but-will-they-trust-it

This is a very informative interview with Shmuli Goldberg, a vice president of marketing for LawGeex. Recently, LawGeex revealed that the artificial intelligence for lawyers the company is working on outperformed twenty lawyers in a challenge to read non-disclosure agreements in contracts.

Artificial intelligence is changing how lawyers practice law and operate law firms. This interview is a good introduction to one of those ways.

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When you are drafting complicated contracts or putting legal arguments forward, there are good arguments to say the amount of creativity a human can bring to the table is going to significantly outperform a robot or AI. However, the study we did was on the exact opposite side of the spectrum. Looking through an NDA and issue-spotting requires little to no creativity. It’s almost like the legal equivalent of a spell-check. The AI was not told to offer solutions. It was not told to make recommendations when it found an issue. It was told: Read through this contract and tell us what’s in it. Tasks like that, yes, robots have proven consistently that they can do better than humans. If you don’t believe me, write a 10,000-page article in Microsoft Word and give it to a human to spell-check. We’re talking about the most basic work that lawyers today do.

https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2018/03/06/an-ai-spell-check-for-lawyers-but-will-they-trust-it

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