Artificial Intelligence & LAW

1. ArtificialIntelligence & LAW Ermo Täks

2. Sources of legalservice • In-sourcing: lawyersundertakelegalworkthemselves, usinginternalresources • De-lawyering: processtohandletasksoverto a non-lawyers (paralegalorlegalexecutive) • Relocating: organisationmovessome of itslegalworktolesscostlylocations (stillwithincountrieswhereorgansiatonis presente) • Off-shoring: transfer of legalworktocountries in whichlabour and propertycosts are lower

3. Sources of legalservice • Outsourcing: conductingthelegalworkbythirdpartyprovider (Document reviewetc.) • Subcontracting: legalworkis passed toanother (usuallysmaller) lawfirm, whichcarrylessoverheads • Co-sourcing: organisationscollaborate in thedelivery of somelegalservice, oftenthroughsoemsharedservicesfacility • Near-shoring: similartooff-shoringbuttheworkiscarriedout in a neighbouring, lowcostjurisdictionthatis in closertimezonetothelawfirmor in-housedepartmentthatisparcellingoutlegaltasks

4. Sources of legalservice • Leasing: engagement of lawyersforlimitedperiods and often on a projectbasis. Theselawyersdonotbelongtoconventionallawfirmsbut are made availablethroughagenciesthat manage theirplacement • Home-sourcing: employing a legal talent notcurrently in themainstrealegalworkspace and yetisavailable, ofte on a part-timebasis, fromlawyerspreferringtoworkfromhome. • Open-sourcing: provisionant no charge, of all sorts of legalmaterials (standard documents, guidelines, procedures, opinionsetc. ) on publiclyaccessiblewebsites. Mostieffective in form of wiki.

5. Sources of legalservice • Crowdsourcing: : harnessingthecollectivetalents of largegroups of individualswhomaketheirtimeavailabletoundertakecertaincathegories of legaltask. Forinstance: delegating a legal probleem tolarge, unknowngroup of volunteers- crowd. Theywillrespondwiththeirproposedlegalsolution (https://www.lawpivot.com)

6. Sources of legalservice • Computerizing: application of informationtechnologytosupportorreplacesomelegaltasks, processes, activitiesorservices. • Solo-sourcing: engagement of indivicualspecialists (law professor orbarristers) toconductspecific, decomposedpackages of legalwork. • No-sourcing: option of choosingnottoundertakelegaltask at all becausetaskitselfisnotsufficientlyhigh risk tomeritanyform of legalsourcing.

7. Disruptivetechnologies • Fundametallychallenging and changingthefunctioning of a firmor a sector • Example-digitalcameratechnologytodownfallKodak, whosebusinesswasbased on earliergenerationtechnology (chemicalprinting) • Helpstobirngoutdemiseevenfor market leaders • In earlydays market leaders and customersoftendismissthesesystems and unlikelyto take off.

8. Automated Document assembly • Enablingtogeneratedocumentswithin minutes comparedtohoursfortraditionalcrafting • Usingforexamplebasicdocument templites • LegalZoom (http://www.legalzoom.com/) • Servedover 2 000 000 users • Claimedtobebetterknown in legal market thanany ohter lawfirm • EPOQ (http://www.epoq.co.uk/) • Enablingto combinecutting-edge document automation technology with internet delivery to enable hundreds of complex legal documents to be drafted

9. Relentlessconnectivity • Referstosystemspreventinglawyersfromentirelydisengagingfromtheirclients and theworkplace. • Technologyincludes • Handhelddevices • a task list can be streamlined by just a push of a button, a calendar can categorize important daily and weekly schedules and appointments • can permit a quicker communication exchange among clients, other lawyers and office personnel. • Getting messages • Mobile e-mail allows you to log into their personal or business account from their personal handheld computers. Read more: http://www.ehow.com/list_7276349_ways-can-use-handheld-computers.html#ixzz2wJtLPNsL

10. Relentlessconnectivity • Tablets •  Good Reader (http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html ) helps • to read documents, • to annotate and review documents. • Tomanage the documents you have. • Noteshelf (http://www.fluidtouch.biz/noteshelf/) • Allowstorecord a meeting and take notes at the same time. • DocumentstoGo (http://www.dataviz.com/DTG_home.html?redirect=documents) • View, edit, and create MicrosoftOffice files • Dropbox (www.dropbox.com), Google Authenticator app

11. Relentlessconnectivity • Instantmessaging • Toallowcoordinate responses to clients. An associate can IM superiorabout how to answer client questions while a client is on the phone • AIM, MSN, Jabber (Google Talk and iChat), Yahoo, ICQ etc. • Skype • Socialnetworking • anattempt to simultaneously harness the power the social media has for instant, off-the-cuff communications while still maintaining privacy about what’s going on within the company. • Foxwordy (https://www.foxwordy.com/)

12. Eletroniclegalmarketplace • Allowsclientstosharetheirviewsonline on theirlawyers: • Performance • Level of services • pricecomparisonsystems • AttorneyFree (http://attorneyfee.com/) • Onlinelegalauctions • http://www.shpoonkle.com/en/

13. E-Learning • Remarkabledevelopment of onlinefacilitiestosupportlegallearning and training • Techniquesinvolveover on linelectures and webinarstosimluatedlegalpractice and virtuallegallearningenvironments • Movefrom „just-in-case“ classroomtrainingto „just-in-time“ learning • http://www.digital-lawyer.com/ • http://www.digital-lawyer.com/blog/10-ways-technology-is-rewiring-law-practice-a-presentation-from-f

14. Onlinelegalguidance • Canprovidelegainformation, legalguidance and legaladviceoverthe Internet • Mayormaynotbesubscriptionbased • LawHelp (http://www.lawhelp.org/) • Onlineresourcehelpinglow- and moderateincomepeopletofindfreelegalaid programmes • Helpstoanswerquestionsabouttheirlegalrights

15. Legalopensourcing • A movementdevotedtobuildinguplargequantities of public, community-orientelegalmaterials(standards, checklists, flowchartsetc.) • LegalInformationInstitute, CornellUniversityLawSchool (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/) • Publishinglawonlinesince 1992 • Creatingmaterialshelpingpeopletounderstandlegalissues • Calledas „law-no-com“ provedr of publiclegalinformation

16. Closedlegalcommunities • Forrestrictedgroups of like-mindedlawyerswithcommonintereststocometogether and collaborateonline in privetsocialnetworks • Buildingupbodies of collectiveknowledge and experience • Similarconceptfordoctorshasenjoyedsuccess • Sermo, onlinecommunityfordoctors • https://www.sermo.com/‎ • 200000 users • Legal On Ramp (http://legalonramp.com/)

17. Workflow and Project management • Workflowsystems • Suitableforhigh-volume and repetitivelegalwork • Resemble automated checkliststhatdrive standard processfrom start tofinish: • Enteringnewclients and cases, including: runningconflictofinterest, routingreports, • btainingsignatures, sendingletters, updatingaccounting and othersystems, etc. • Submittingand trackingHourlyEmployee Time Sheets • PerformanceReviews and Budgeting • Openinga Case (from a lawyersfocus, notonlyfromanadministrativefocus) • ContractDrafting, Review & Approval • ManagingFilingDeadlines • PaperlessProcessingof Time DependentDocuments • CollaborativeDocument Drafting & Control • Closinga Case - ClientSatisfaction

18. Workflow and Project management • Project managementsystems • Bettersuitedtolegaltasks and activities of morecomplex and lessstructured natuure • Enablingmoredisciplinedhandlingcomparedtoad-hoceryapproach

19. OnlineDisputeResolution (ODR) • Process of actuallyresolvingthelegal dispuute • Formformulationtosolution • Largelyconductedacrossthe internet • E-negotiations • E-meditation

20. Intelligent legalsearch • Outperformingtheparalegals and juunior lawyerswhenreviewing and categorizinglargebodies of documents • Caneasilybeoutsourced

21. Embeddedlegalknowledge • Infuturethelegalruleswillbeembededed in oursystems and processes • Self-drivingcarshouldfollowthetrafficrules • Detectingtheusage of alcohol in driversplace and prohibiting a driving

22. Bigdata • Worldwideuse of Internet createsenormouslybigdatasets • Too vast and too unvieldytobemanaged • Canleadtopatterns and correldationspreviouslynothavebeennoticedbefore • Google FluTrends (http://www.google.org/flutrends/) • Monitoringtheuse of certainsearchtermstoidentifyoutbreaks of fluearlier and moreregularlythanbefore • Canbeusedtolearnaboutlegalissues and concernstroublingparticularcommunities • Analyzingdecision of judges and regulatorstopredictoutcomes • Collectinghugebocies of commercialcontracts and exchanges of emailstogaininsightstogreatestlegalrisksforspecificsectors

23. AI-based probleem solving • IBM Watsonasanexample • Leadingustoonlineproblem-solving • Applying AI techniguestothatweget AI basedlegal probleem-solving • Couldbeonlineservicecontaining vast stores of structured and unstructuredlegalmaterials (pimary and secondarysources) • Abletounderstandlegalproblemsexpressed in naturallanguage • Cananalyse and calssifythefactpatternintheseproblems • Candraw a conclusion and offerlegaladvice • Caneven Express thisguidance