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. Today, we'll talk about why all attorneys should think about using technology and becoming more tech-savvy. Consider how many times you've had to interact with technology in your legal career. You may not know it, but you have already interacted with technology in your career. Consider how you could have made a call and advised a client over the phone, or utilized a video conference to defend a client in court, or offered legal advice via a video chat.
All these amongst others are the different ways you have already used technology in your day to day professional life. Technological integration does not just stop at virtual communications, it goes as far as using legal help bots.
Technological integration has progressed over time, with a new poll predicting that all professional attorneys would need to know cording by 2030. Isn't it hilarious? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes It's no secret that there are already lawyer bots on the internet that you may employ to provide legal assistance. It has the benefit over humans in that it can operate efficiently 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and it is less expensive, thus it may be more cheap. Lawyers already have a problem because most court document templates are available for free online; nevertheless, this does not mean that anybody can perform the duties of a lawyer. The job of a lawyer is complicated and difficult to grasp.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A LAWYER AND A LAWYER BOT?
A bot is a piece of software that automates tasks like setting an alarm or surfing the web. Bots are commonly associated with chatbots, however this is only one type of bot. You're using a machine when you order pizza online without speaking to a person. One of the most well-known bots is Siri. A Lawyer Bot is software that automates legal tasks that typically require the assistance of an attorney. Lawyers may employ bots to speed up their work and provide a better client experience by allowing clients to serve themselves online.
WHY IS TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION NOT SUCH A BAD IDEA?
Without needing to communicate in person or over the phone, lawyers and law firm personnel may utilize digitalization to swiftly share information among themselves and with clients. Using technology to address issues became the new standard during the Covid-19 epidemic, when everyone was shut down and demobilized. Consider the use of Zoom to conduct meetings. During social distance, we may have all noticed an increase in the usage of zoom, Google Meet, House Party, and other applications and software.
The frequent breakdown of the network owing to weak network connections is a problem that most individuals, including myself, encounter.
Simply because a lawyer bot has been adopted does not mean that a lawyer has been eliminated from the equation. Legal representation include not just legal advice and writing, but also legal representation, which is something that only attorneys can accomplish. When a result, even as technology advances, a lawyer just needs to use it to his or her advantage to enhance productivity.
CHECK OUT SOME OF THE LAWYER BOTS BELOW.
DO NOT PAY
Have you been issued an erroneous parking ticket? Instead of paying hundreds of pounds, tech savvy individuals in the United Kingdom are using DO NOT PAY a legal chatbot, to contest parking charges.
DoNotPay is a mobile application that employs artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of an algorithm that deciphers ordinary language. Since its introduction in April, DoNotPay's software has helped customers overturn 160,000 of 250,000 parking penalties, a success rate of 64 percent and it costs only about 3 USDs as a monthly subscription.
The machines have an added advantage in machine learning because they have can learn and adapt with time as more data is entered into it and it gets more exposure.
ROBOT LAYER LISA
Lisa is short for Legal Intelligence Support Assistant. LISA's initial product is a confidentiality agreement, often known as a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), which removes the need for attorneys throughout the negotiating process by starting in the middle ground.
LISA is a two-way AI program that may be used on a computer or a smartphone to ask the initiator a series of questions. The document is finished and forwarded to the reviewer. LISA is used by the reviewer to make any modifications. The paper is ready to be signed after everyone is satisfied, and you now have a legally enforceable NDA. LISA has lately expanded its property services to include writing commercial, corporate, and residential leases.
3. ROSS
ROSS makes advantage of IBM Watson's supercomputing capacity to sift through massive amounts of data and learn how to best serve its consumers over time. The program can filter through material that would typically take a human hours upon hours to evaluate in a matter of seconds.
BakerHostetler, a legal firm that specializes in bankruptcy matters, was one of the first to adopt ROSS. Employees use ordinary language to enter commands into the program, such as when they need to discover precedent instances for certain circumstances. ROSS then conducts a search of its legal database for the necessary information.
4. BILLYBOT
Do you require the services of a barrister or a mediator to resolve your legal issue? Are you stumped as to where to begin? Billy Bot is a robot. Billy Bot is a junior clerk robot who is intended to assist you locate the proper lawyer or mediator for your legal situation. He is described as "a cheeky chappie who loves to speak."
Billy Bot will perform the duties of a typical barrister's clerk while also providing internet consumers with basic legal information. The chatbot's ultimate goal is to introduce customers to free online legal materials, assist them determine if they need legal aid, and then, if they do, locate them a lawyer – either a solicitor or a direct access barrister – arrange appointments, and handle all of the chores that a human clerk would.
In conclusion, the legal profession is not to be afraid of emergency of technology but should adapt and embrace technology because lets face it, technology is here to stay and all we can do is find a way to intergrade it with our daily life