Legal Tech: Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Review Posted on : Aug 23 - 2021

Software powered by artificial intelligence (AI) already carries out multiple legal tasks today. In the future, AI will affect and own even more of these tasks.

While consumer facing AI is rapidly evolving, AI in legal is still in its early days. Autonomous legal departments and law firms are still far away. Today, AI can conduct research, review documents, expedite digital discovery, aid due diligence and more, but it cannot replace advocacy or negotiation or appear in court.

State Of The Review Process

There are numerous pilots, programs and live use cases underway in the industry that aim to aid the review process, but AI has emerged as one of the most valuable.

The legal industry has adopted AI expedite processes like due diligence, document review and rapid contract analysis during litigation to ascertain quality, completeness and relevance. This is done by establishing predetermined criteria to train data models to predict case outcomes.

In this current state, AI-powered software improves the speed, accuracy and efficiency of document review. Once these documents are annotated, AI can look for additional documents, sorting through these at a rate much faster than humans.

The current state of review focuses on tactical processes, and AI generally automates only rudimentary processes. To more fully harness AI, lawyers must also think about how to use AI more strategically at the organizational level.

Let’s take a look at some of the different types of AI review — and how professionals can more fully embrace AI.

Research Review

Many lawyers have adopted research tools like Lexis to streamline case review. In the pre-digital era, this was a very cumbersome process that involved looking at headnotes, tags and handwritten annotations. AI can propel this to the next level by delivering instant results despite differences in formats and language. Humans take hours to identify identical cases, while AI can find them in a few seconds. View More