What All can AI be Used for in Litigation and How?

Shivansh Jain
Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad

Volume III, Issue III, 2020

The advent of technology and artificial intelligence has been ground shaking in every aspect irrespective of its role and the sector concerned. Come to think of it, AI can do a lot in the litigation and legal profession. In fact, it already is doing a lot of work which used to be done manually. Using AI in litigation has two sides to it, firstly, the litigation costs would decrease due to less human involvement and more of machine work and secondly, it would also put a lot of junior legal practitioners and associates out of their jobs as what they used to do is already being done by the machine and more conveniently and at a much better pace. The technology is said to be capable of handling some of the complex litigation tasks such as legal research, drafting pleadings and even predicting judicial decisions and in fraction of the time taken by humans to do the same task.

 

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