ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: THE POWERHOUSE OF SUCCESSFUL LEGAL

PRACTICE IN THE FUTURE

INTRODUCTION

The term “technology” is ameliorating and changing the way any task is performed in any
profession, and the same can be appertained to legal profession. The digital technology is
corroding the footmarks of men by working and functioning across the borders, which
accords flexibility in terms of eliminating travel time, ruling our infrastructural expenditure
and minimizing the need for manpower. This is very well evident in the COVID-19 pandemic
where the foundation of e-courts has taken the entire work of lawyers and firms from e-filing
of various documents like petitions, vakalatnamas and bail applications to an online mode.
Even the hearings are taking place by the way of video conferencing.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: TYE REAL GAME CHANGER

Artificial Intelligence has a colossal impact on the way the leading firms operate as it is an
amalgamation of analytical and arithmetic inference which can perform multitudinous tasks
encompassing legal research, document discovery, document automation, forecasting end
results of the case and timely billing. Therefore, Artificial Intelligence presents a solution to
the firms in terms of augmenting the mechanism of legal research by segregating the relevant
case laws and sections from bounteous data; corroboration of facts and verification of
documents. According to a report by McKinsey, about 23 percent of the lawyer’s piece of
work will be programmed through the use of AI in the near future.

So, the law firms and the lawyers who want to lead the market should be agile and flexible
enough to adopt this advanced landscape of technology. However, adapting them would
require an interdisciplinary team consisting of technologists, designers, human resource
specialists and business professionals who can help a firm to develop and deliver diversified
services, especially of advice giving. Therefore, the successful legal practice in the digitally
driven future would manifest itself as the one that would be investing in human resources and
technology, rather than in the physical infrastructure.