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Have you ever worked with client portal software? Even if you haven’t, it’s possible you soon will — especially now with more attorneys working remotely and many clients wanting to avoid going into the firm’s office for meetings. 

For many firms, client portals are now the go-to solution for working and communicating with clients. It allows everyone to review things on their own time, wherever they may be.  

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Tools like generative AI already have real-world implications in the legal profession. In our previous post, we covered discussions at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) Global Institute around the disruptive potential of generative AI, and how it will affect the way legal teams scale their services.

Here, we review sessions at the conference around active use cases and immediate steps professionals can take to learn more about the technology.

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The legal industry is in the midst of transformation. Legal professionals increasingly cite the cloud as the norm for the present and the future of ediscovery, and other legal functions such as document management and case tracking.

As law firms recognize the benefits of the cloud – its speed, scalability, security, collaborative nature, ability to handle modern data types, among others – and as they march towards the future, some firms are grappling with questions around adopting new technology and replacing old processes.

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Popular media — special shout out to Ally McBeal — would have us believe that trials, particularly trial by jury, are the way most cases are resolved. But legal professionals will tell you that that is simply no longer the case. When the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect in 1938, 20% of federal civil cases were resolved with a trial. In 2017, it was less than 1%. All this despite the increase in overall civil litigation over the last 85 years.

Why is this important? If cases aren’t going to trial, then the discovery process represents most of the time and expenses incurred in a given case. But, as any lawyer will tell you, this process can quickly go off the rails resulting in expensive, risky, and overly complex discovery efforts. An electronically stored information (ESI) agreement can help parties limit the scope of discovery, mitigate the risk of disputes, help reduce unnecessary spend, and ensure that the parties obtain the information necessary to reach an earlier resolution.

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Abraham Lincoln once said, "The best way to predict your future is to create it." In today's increasingly connected, complex, and competitive legal landscape, this quote resonates more than ever. Lawyers at all career stages, whether they work in-house or in private practice, have a generation-defining opportunity to shape the future of legal practice by embracing technologies powered by artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies offer immense potential to transform the way lawyers and legal professionals approach their work, not least in terms of automation, but in removing the barriers created by an adherence to the status quo.

In this blog, we'll explore how AI and generative AI are impacting the legal profession today, look at some of the AI research, highlight the competitive advantages firms can gain from adopting this technology today, and provide real-world examples of AI's transformative potential.

Many service providers will tell you that leveraging AI in eDiscovery is the equivalent of using an easy button. Too many repetitive tasks? AI will automate them. Improve on previous cases? Predictive analytics to the rescue. Hunting for small amounts of data among millions of documents? A simple task with AI.

While we might not have an easy button, AI isn’t as difficult to deploy as most people think. You just have to be aware that use cases for AI aren’t identical. There are different wrinkles, and subtle nuances that distinguish each one in every matter.

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We’ve been busy at the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) trying to understand the quickly evolving landscape that impacts lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals.

We launched tA survey at Relativity Fest in Fall 2022 to assess the current state of AIML in eDiscovery and document review.

We received an outstanding response, with 242 participants, including attorneys, consultants, litigation/practice support professionals, and paralegals, sharing their experiences and insights on AIML technology in the legal industry.

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2020 was a turning point during which we saw innovation and technology compliment unprecedented challenges to the practice of law. As the devastating effects of COVID-19 permanently altered the world’s systems, work-from-home culture became the norm, forcing attorneys to examine both data privacy and security measures and guidelines around the practice of law.

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Stevens & Bolton, a leading UK law firm, has been providing exceptional legal assistance to its clients for the last 150 years. Attorneys at Stevens & Bolton are highly experienced and have a wide range of expertise including banking, finance, real estate, commercial, and regulatory law. The firm works with large companies all over the world; however, it also specializes in working with individual clients in areas such as employment, family law, immigration, and taxation.

With a philosophy based on empathy, excellence, and providing realistic, decisive advice, Stevens & Bolton has built a reputation as a highly experienced and effective law firm across the globe.

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COVID-19 changed how many of us work, creating a rapid pivot for many organizations, including law firms, to a hybrid or fully remote work structure. Where once everyone was expected to work onsite at the law firm offices, working from anywhere has become the norm for many law firms.

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