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Robot takeover of lawyers’ work “unlikely to be as far-reaching or as fast as predicted”
Tuesday, 5 January 2016Automation by computers is unlikely to replace much of the work currently done by lawyers any time soon and the negative employment effects of technology have been overstated, according to a study.
Tags: artificial intelligence, Automation
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Riverview unveils technology behind ‘virtual assistants’
Monday, 7 December 2015Riverview Law has unveiled the technology which will power a range of legal ‘virtual assistants’ it is preparing to launch next year. Riverview said ‘Kim’ was already being used outside the legal world.
Tags: artificial intelligence, Technology
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IBM lays out massive potential for Watson in the law
Thursday, 19 November 2015Cognitive computing could be used to suggest which arguments in court might play well or badly with a particular judge at a given time of day, according to a senior member of IBM’s Watson development team, although she outlined a number of more benign uses for the technology.
Tags: artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence, cognitive computing
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Lawyers should collaborate with ‘robots’, Law Society president says
Monday, 16 November 2015Lawyers should use artificial intelligence to improve their work, drive efficiencies, increase accuracy and retain clients, the president of the Law Society has said. However, Jonathan Smithers said “expert intervention by lawyers” would always be needed.
Tags: artificial intelligence, Law Society
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BLP enlists AI to shoulder process work burden – and so far the lawyers like it
Wednesday, 16 September 2015Global law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner will be using artificial intelligence across every practice area within three years, the man credited with bringing AI technology to its real estate department has predicted.
Tags: artificial intelligence
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Riverview steps up AI focus with deal to buy US tech business
Tuesday, 1 September 2015Riverview Law has completed a “multi-million” pound deal to buy an American knowledge automation business as part of its plans to develop the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the legal market. It said the deal to buy CliXLEX was a “major step” towards the creation of ‘virtual assistants’
Tags: artificial intelligence
Posted in Latest news, Technology
Legal research pioneers to bring “artificially intelligent attorney” to UK
Wednesday, 5 August 2015Law firms in England and Wales are in the sights of the creators of the legal research programme powered by IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence computer system, which claims to be able to answer legal queries posed in natural language.
Tags: artificial intelligence
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Consultancy chief challenges Susskind over impact of technology
Wednesday, 25 February 2015Professor Richard Susskind, IT adviser to the Lord Chief Justice, has warned lawyers that they have a “window of opportunity” before technological changes in the 2020s transform the way they work.
Tags: artificial intelligence
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Watson-based app heralds ordinary speech legal searches
Tuesday, 17 February 2015Would-be lawyers have designed an app that they claim is the first “artificially intelligent attorney”, able to conduct legal searches in answer to natural language queries, based on IBM’s cognitive computer, Watson.
Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, Ross
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Artificial intelligence in the law moves step closer as Riverview teams up with top academics
Monday, 5 January 2015The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the legal market has moved a step closer after Riverview Law teamed up with Liverpool University to leverage the university’s leading AI expertise.
Tags: artificial intelligence
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Succession (Season 5) – Santa looks to the future
It’s time for the annual Christmas blog from Nigel Wallis, consultant at Legal Futures Associate O’Connors Legal Services.
The COLP and management 12 days of Christmas checklist
Leading up to Christmas this year, it might be a quieter time to reflect on trends, issues and regulation, and how they might impact your firm.
The next wave of AI: what’s really coming in 2025
The most exciting battle in artificial intelligence isn’t unfolding in corporate labs; it’s happening in the open-source community.
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