Week 8 Post #2 MBA 6101 Legal Assistance

 

This past week at work I received a notification from Thomson Reuters which is a platform that my attorneys use for their research in legal cases. Thomson Reuters signed an agreement to acquire Casetext that will assist legal professionals achieve a broad range of tasks in their workflows to help with their research, analysis and document preparation and review. This investment will cost $100 million dollars annually on AI powered capabilities. Being that I work in a legal setting, it is imperative to my colleagues to utilize such a platform to assist them in their daily tasks. Not a replacement but more of an "assist" capacity. Thousands of cases come through everyday and in order to keep up with the pace, this type of AI will be efficient and exceptional. It will help them answer complex legal questions and give them quicker access right at their fingertips. It will help them read through thousands of legal documents and generate summaries in a quickness including any possible risks. It can also work in any software of their choice and assist in drafting to finalize work at a speed that isn't doable with basic touch. 

I have said it before and I will say it again. If AI is something that can help your company in positive efficient ways more than it will harm then its a win-win. When you have such a heavy workload such as legal cases and have to navigate through hundreds of thousands of documents on a daily basis then AI can be your best friend. Is AI going to replace you in that aspect? No. You still have to review the outcome results of utilizing AI and make sure that it is something that can be sent forth to a judge that is appropriate. When you are an attorney, you are representing the face of the agency and when doing so, you have to ensure that you have the best interest of that agency and ensuring that your work is impeccable, thorough and acceptable is very crucial. 

 

Source: 

https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/artificial-intelligence.html