[HeadInTheClouds]

I think that AI/Machine learning has made a big impact on the Ediscovery part of the legal industry. The use of ML commonly known as Predictive Coding does appear to reduce the number of hours required to find relevant documents in a large corpus.

There is a lot of noise about the use of AI in other areas of law, but I suspect (in common with other industries) this is just part of the hype cycle. That is not to say that the use of AI is not on the rise, but the article likely overstates its use.

[artificiallawya]

Re. Overstating use, far from it. This piece is from 2017, since then adoption of NLP/ML systems has rapidly grown among the leading law firms eg AmLaw 100 and UK 100. Even excluding ediscovery systems the use of AI Tech for review work has hugely increased - sufficient to keep a daily blog going just to keep up with all that is happening. Don’t get complacent. Things among larger firms are starting to change.