Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer"
will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal
knowledge engineer." And some in the field are already taking a
proactive approach -- in fact, more than two dozen law schools have
developed innovation centers to explore artificial intelligence (AI) and
the law. In a competitive marketplace, both firms and individuals need
to familiarize themselves with the dazzling array of new products and
enhanced features capable of improving efficiency. Written by leading
practitioners and visionaries like Robert Ambrogi, this groundbreaking
survey of current practices and future trends offers an incisive
examination of the evolving roles for law librarians. Readers will learn
how AI technology is changing law school curricula, lawyer practice,
marketing, and other key aspects of the field through coverage of such
topics as
- the benefits of AI to law librarianship, including areas like legal
research, contract review, compliance, and administration, and their
associated risks;
- four professional ethics rules that apply to the use or (non-use) of
AI;
- how lawyers and staff work side by side with AI, utilizing
intelligence like RAVN ACE or FastCase to attack the drudgery of due
diligence and document review;
- surprising machine-learning insights from tokenizing, stemming, and
lemmatizing the text of Shakespeare's plays;
- the potential for chatbots and new natural language processing
products to improve access to justice; and
- ways to develop sought-after skills through new technology
departments, practice management groups, and legal innovation labs.
Reading this collection will give you a firm grasp of the innovations,
tools, benefits, and risks of AI in law librarianship.
