Summer Newsletter Sizzler – Grisham, Offers, Engagements & Announcements
Posted on August 2nd, 2018 by Chrissie Lightfoot
Summer 2018 … What a super summer of sunny, warm weather and festivals we’re having here in the UK. Bang on theme this summer newsletter is sizzling with exciting news at home and abroad and packed with offers, engagements and announcements. Read on. ENJOY!:)
May 2018 Naked Lawyer Newsletter – AI Mischief World Tour
Posted on May 28th, 2018 by Chrissie Lightfoot
The Naked Lawyer Bullet – May 2018 Newsletter …
Announcing… The AI Mischief World Tour… I’m taking The Naked Lawyer & Robot Lawyer LISA globe trotting on a speaking tour, together:
Theme: “Challenging the Norm! Human & Machine: a dynamic duo in business, law, society and life.”
The Naked Lawyer newsletter – sharing super cool, AI, Robot, Business, Futurist, Law events, people, businesses, humour and wisdom…
Read all about it HERE …
Love to hear from you if you’d like us to visit you 🙂
2018 & beyond? Blazing a trail…
Posted on January 11th, 2018 by Chrissie Lightfoot
This interview (my first in 2018) was first published in Womanthology on January 10th, 2018, issue 92 Future Focus, and edited by the fabulous Fiona Tatton. In this issue, Womanthogoy rounded up (quoting Fiona) “a group of super-awesome women who have interesting things to say about the future.” Fiona gathered the stories from “an epic roll-call of women from tech, medicine, architecture, film, science, engineering, law, insurance, psychology and more.” Their stories are remarkable, entertaining, inspiring and motivating. I feel truly honoured and blessed to be included in this special edition, to share my professional journey with (and for) women (who are, or aspire to be) in tech / business / law, in the hope to inspire those who read it to reach for the stars. Fiona shares my story here:
Why women in legaltech should go where no man or woman has been before and blaze a trail – Chrissie Lightfoot, Co-founder, Director and CEO of Robot Lawyer LISA.
Chrissie Lightfoot is co-founder, director and CEO of Robot Lawyer LISA, where she heads up strategy, research and development, as well as business development for artificial intelligence application legal contract solutions for businesses and consumers. Chrissie is a legal futurist, author, speaker and adviser, as well as an investor in artificial intelligence in the legaltech space. In 2015 Chrissie was named as one of the world’s top female futurists, she won the AI 2017 Legal Award for best legal professional coaching company and was appointed as an advisor to the board of The Telegraph’s Digital Enterprise Network.
What I have shared in this interview provides a clue about what is coming up next with LISA and the team. Whatever we do, it will be customer-led together with technology-led and ultimately mankind-led.
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Newsletter: LISA & DoNotPay link up
Posted on October 19th, 2017 by Chrissie Lightfoot
Robot Lawyer LISA’s second newsletter is positively sizzling with NEW collaborations, #AI tools & media coverage…
“Hello and welcome to the second Robot Lawyer LISA newsletter!
We’ve received great feedback after the first release, so we hope you find this second newsletter just as useful.
We have a variety of exciting news about collaborations with other platforms that are opening up the legal market to millions of people around the globe, news about both our NDA AI Tool service and soon-to-be released AI Property Tools plus details about some of the media coverage we have had over the last couple of months…” Read More Here
Robot Lawyer LISA’s flagship newsletter
Posted on September 3rd, 2017 by Chrissie Lightfoot
Robot Lawyer LISA’s flagship newsletter is positively sizzling with NEW #Robot romances, #AI tools & #Business goodies
“Welcome from the CEO, Chrissie Lightfoot.
As this is the first Robot Lawyer LISA newsletter I am delighted and privileged to write on behalf of all of us here at team LISA and say a warm “HELLO and WELCOME!” … Read more here
World’s first Bot to Bot relationship
Posted on August 31st, 2017 by Chrissie Lightfoot
Press Release: Digital legal services link up to offer clients even more choice
Two pioneering providers of legal support have teamed up to give consumers and businesses even more choice when looking for services online.
Robot Lawyer LISA and Clerksroom BillyBot are at the cutting edge of digital law services, using emerging technologies to aid users looking for time critical and quality legal insight.
The collaboration will see both platforms have a brand presence on each other’s websites, as well as ongoing joint marketing campaigns between the pair.
This partnership between LISA and BillyBot marks possibly the first ‘robot relationship’ between two innovative legal bot solutions providers.
Chrissie Lightfoot, CEO and co-founder of Robot Lawyer LISA, said: “From day one we have been focused on making access to legal services cost effective, time saving and transparent for consumers and businesses to acquire their legal needs by using technology wherever possible in the first instance before moving on to garner human lawyer support, if at all necessary or desired. That’s why we developed Robot Lawyer LISA.
“Today we are delighted to reveal with this announcement the bigger picture in relation to our vision to bring together the right AI solutions and partnerships under the Robot Lawyer LISA website portal and brand to fundamentally change the way the average person can achieve affordable self-help, self-serve access to quality legal insight, documentation and advice.
“This is especially important now, as people who are using LISA have made suggestions with regard to additional AI tools they would find useful and as a result we are now developing a suite of property tools that will be released shortly. We are working hard to make sure that users have plenty of resources at their disposal to support them as they create these documents, as well as the opportunity to use the services of human lawyers too.
“Not only will this partnership mean they are able to protect themselves with LISA’s free NDA tool and purchase a variety of other tools in due course, but they’ll also be able to source quality legal advice direct from human solicitors who programmed LISA and direct from human barristers through the use and help of BillyBot leading to Clerksroom’s extensive barrister pool throughout England & Wales.
“While law can be complicated, giving people access to the most basic of legal services and insight need not be if the first step is to use tech tools and virtual assistants wherever possible. Inevitably where users of such tools then wish to seek out assistance or representation from a solicitor or barrister we aim to make it as simple as possible for the public to do this also.”
LISA, the world’s first impartial robot lawyer, is a hybrid human and machine system, knowledge engineered with legal reasoning, insight and judgment in a commercial context built in. LISA’s AI tools are powered by Neota Logic’s AI platform technology, and are developed with decades of human legal knowledge and experience.
LISA is fast and easy to use, allowing those without legal expertise to get to the heart of the matter and come to an agreement quickly. The free flagship NDA tool enables users to create a bespoke, legally binding non-disclosure agreement in less than 15 minutes between themselves.
Stephen Ward, MD and co-founder of Clerksroom said: “We’ve been hearing rumours about Billy Bot and robot LISA for quite some time now, but we’re delighted that they’ve finally decided to make it official. People say office romances don’t last, however we’re looking forward to potentially the first bot wedding in a few years’ time!”
Clerksroom provides advice, representation and mediation services across England & Wales for lawyers and non-lawyers. They help lay clients find barristers, allowing them to work together, providing true access to first rate legal advice and representation through the traditional chambers route or via the innovative public access portal for non-lawyers.
Billy Bot is a junior clerk robot that has been programmed to help users find the right barrister or mediator for their legal problems, offer a quote, check the barrister’s diary, book the hearing into the diary if accepted, send acknowledgement letters and confirm the terms agreed. Billy Bot is currently in training and working with other legal software suppliers to offer a broad range of services. Working with LISA is one step towards an ever growing API library.
To find out more about the relationship, visit
www.robotlawyerlisa.com/clerksroom-direct and www.robotlawyerlisa.com/billy-bot.
ENDS
NOTES TO EDITORS
About LISA
LISA is the world’s first impartial robot lawyer. LISA’s AI technology enables you to create legally binding agreements with another party, together, helping you both find a middle ground as quickly and cost effectively as possible. Whereas a human lawyer cannot advise or act for both sides when creating an agreement, LISA’s machine impartiality means she can save both you and the counter-party time and money.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a consumer, an entrepreneur, a start-up, a small or medium-sized enterprise or a large corporation. LISA levels the playing field and allows you or your business to:
- Understand the key legal and commercial principles underlying your legal problems, which need to be considered by you and the receiver.
- Find the middle ground for you and the receiver, while offering guidance to help you move forward without the costly interference of a human lawyer.
- Get your basic legal questions answered, documents drafted and an agreement achieved on terms that are fair and reasonable for both sides.
- Assess whether you fall within the law or outside.
About Chrissie
Chrissie Lightfoot studied her first degree in Leisure & Business at Leeds Becket University and then went on to do a Masters degree in Law at Sheffield Law School.
She trained as a corporate solicitor at Lee & Priestly LLP law firm in Leeds (now merged with Lupton Fawcett LLP). In 2009, she left the firm and became a legal futurist, founding Entrepreneur Lawyer and working from a makeshift office in her apartment in Leeds. Entrepreneur Lawyer helps lawyers, entrepreneurs and technologists future-proof their careers and businesses. Subsequently she has become one of the world’s top women futurists, an in-demand global keynote speaker, writer, author, consultant and advisor around topics such as the impact of AI and robots in society and law, as well as marketing and branding.
Chrissie lives and works between Harrogate, Leeds, Ripon and London.
For more information contact Chrissie Lightfoot:
E: chrissie@entrepreneurlawyer.co.uk
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Robot Lawyers – The next legal frontier
Posted on July 28th, 2017 by Chrissie Lightfoot
This article was first published in ITProPortal 25th July 2017 and is reproduced here in its original form:
Artificial intelligence will transform the way lawyers do business.
“What’s the next legal frontier?”
When you’re a legal futurist it’s a question you hear on a frequent basis. When and where are technology and the practice of law next going to collide with one another, and what are the implications for those in the legal profession, for business and for the man on the street?
In the past this sort of question may have given me pause for thought. After all, as Peter Drucker once said: “Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window”. Thankfully you don’t have to look too far back to see where it has already intersected or down the road to see where the tech and law are going to cross paths in the future. Over the next few years we’re going to witness the rise of fully automated intelligent legal services that will become mainstream. As a prelude to this, we’re going to experience a range of robot lawyers that will fundamentally change the way the average person can have affordable self-help, self-serve access to quality legal insight and documentation. This is happening now.
That may not come as too much of a surprise. Artificial intelligence and robots are becoming an increasingly familiar fixture in our day-to-day lives, both at home thanks to tools such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, as well as in the workplace. No industry is insulated from this change, even the legal world. Spend a few minutes browsing the internet and you’ll soon discover that there are already robot lawyers that are out there changing the way ordinary people interact with legal services.
I strongly believe that this technology is going to benefit consumers, businesses and law firms. That’s why we developed LISA, the world’s first impartial and unbiased AI-powered robot lawyer that provides objective support, delivers bespoke, legally sound non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) at absolutely no cost for users on opposite sides of a legal matter to self-help together; negating two sets of human lawyers ergo two sets of time and cost. The reception since launch in April from around the globe has shown us that this is a service the business world and consumers have been crying out for, and that the robot lawyer revolution is only just beginning.
But why are tools like LISA gaining traction among businesses and consumers? AI-powered lawyers are changing the way that businesses are protected and legally supported. At the moment there are a lot of people who are so alienated by the impenetrable nature of the legal world and human lawyer behaviour that they’re not seeking any sort of protection. It should be obvious to everyone within the profession that while law is complicated, giving the consumer access to the most basic of legal services and insight need not be.
Understanding how we create pathways for consumers to protect themselves opens up a world of opportunity for firms. Access to these sort of services is particularly problematic for small business owners, for entrepreneurs, whether they’re young students, seasoned or serial, and for burgeoning startups. These people need quality basic legal knowledge, insight, guidance and support to progress their ideas. However, they often find themselves in situations where lack of time and money makes liaising with legal experts to acquire insight and to get these documents in place more stressful than it really should be. The result? This ‘latent legal buyer in need’ goes to ground.
It’s impossible to know the true scale of the latent legal buyer market, but studies show that in the USA 80% of businesspeople don’t use a human lawyer. In the UK, 54% of all SMEs and 33% of consumers muddle on unrepresented. In addition to time and cost, individuals in this situation often point to the lack of availability and inconvenience when it comes to accessing these services, legalese and a desire for independence as to why they go it alone. The result of all this? A lot of self-made hacked together inadequate documents that don’t offer businesses and individuals the protection they sorely need. That template confidentiality agreement, delivered as a form for you to fill in, purchased from the shelves of your local retail store, can be out of date, or maybe you use basic document automation processes online discovered when searching after a long day of client and investor meetings, which lacks human lawyer guidance and legal insight? I’m sorry to say it’s probably not worth the paper it’s written on.
Despite this, the legal profession is booming. How can that be if people are actively avoiding going to see lawyers in the numbers they are? Well, that’s because time spent creating documentation like NDAs can be spent much better elsewhere. This is an essential legal service, something which law firms will always provide, however it requires manpower which is time consuming to churn out these basic legal agreements.
Going forward in order to provide legal value to disgruntled consumers and businesses that currently use human lawyers, and solve the problem of the legally unrepresented, underserved and neglected, the answer lies in solutions like LISA; a hybrid human and machine system knowledge engineered with reasoning, insight and judgment built in.
Technical products and services in the form of robot lawyers like LISA are available at all hours, intelligent, fast, free and insightful in a commercial and consumer context. They use decades of human legal knowledge, intelligence and experience, are easy to use for the uninitiated who can cut straight to the heart of a legal matter and come to an agreement as quickly possible. They are going to be vital, not only for hard working entrepreneurs, but the legal professional with a pile of work on his or her desk.
LISA is also working with the next generation of lawyers to make sure that they’re prepared for the impact of emerging technology on their profession. We’re delighted to have been able to team up with the University of Westminster and its Law School, one of the leading institutions in the UK in the field of technology and the law. This partnership will help their students understand how AI-powered solutions like LISA work and how they as lawyers can best use them.
This doesn’t end at NDAs by the way. Tomorrow’s legal practitioners and entrepreneurial legal service providers are going to be able to intelligently automate a lot more than they already are currently due to the variety of technologies available ranging from the rudimentary to the highly sophisticated. Examples include chatbots, robotic automation systems, expert systems, cognitive computing and machine learning tools. All have their value when deployed and used by consumers, ‘solopreneurs’ or multi-national conglomerates.
But what makes them useful in solving real problems for consumers and businesses just as LISA does, resides in the imagination of the new legal service creators in how they use these technologies and their willingness and ability to go there.
In addition to LISA’s technology, which is powered by Neota Logic’s AI platform, the chatbot technologies used by LawBot-X, DoNotPay and other services have demonstrated just how powerful existing and emerging technology is going to be in shaping the future of not just the legal industry, but every area of society.
LawBot-X, DoNotPay and LISA all offer entirely different yet complimentary services to many people who truly need a variety of legal services that were not possible at such reach or scale with omnipresent allure.
In the next few months, the team at LISA plan to reveal new partnerships and a range of new AI tools for students, businesses and consumers. The technology is here to bridge the gap between people who don’t have the resource to afford time critical and quality legal insight from human lawyers, and a legal industry that would much rather spend its time looking at the bigger picture. Preparing the profession and industry for this dramatic change, and ensuring that it is ready to engage with this technology in a way that is beneficial to business, is the next major challenge.
We’re up for it at Robot Lawyer LISA. Are you?
Author: Chrissie Lightfoot, one of the world’s top female futurists, legal futurist, keynote speaker, consultant, legaltech investor, author of best-seller The Naked Lawyer, Tomorrow’s Naked Lawyer (impact of AI and robots in society and law), founder and CEO of EntrepreneurLawyer, co-founder and CEO of Robot Lawyer LISA.
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What Will Be Hot In 2017?
Posted on February 9th, 2017 by Chrissie Lightfoot
This is the full version of my predictions and insights published in an edited format in Legal IT Today #16 on 20th Dec 2016…
1 In your field of expertise, what do you believe will be the most important trend in 2017?
I can envisage the most important trend in 2017 will be an increasing number of imaginative new AI Apps and bots deployed into the legal ecosystem by existing legal providers (lawyers and law firms) and new entrants to the legal market (entrepreneurial new ventures, legal tech geeks and/or students), in a whole range of fields of law for both commercial reasons and ‘social good’ intent. Invariably, imaginative legal provider business models which are far removed from the traditional law firm business model, will expand.
These algorithmic AI Apps and Bots are much cheaper and faster to create, develop, deploy and take to market than traditional and/or blue chip vendor technologies, therefore I predict a proliferation of these kinds of new services and products meaning many businesses and consumers will reap the benefit of enjoying ‘machine and human’ legal services and products for the very first time.
Robot lawyers will be the catalyst that opens up the latent legal market. The trend will be for many of these new AI App and bot providers to deliver access to legal services by helping to open up the latent legal buyer market and serve the excluded majority – those 80% of businessmen and women in the USA, 54% of all SMEs and 33% of consumers in the UK, and the ‘unknown’ marginalised number of people in other countries across the world who do not use a human lawyer because of the many well documented and reported prohibitive reasons.
New, improved, high quality, cost effective and time efficient AI App and Bot legal services and products which empower people to ‘help themselves’ will be warmly received by legal buyers as they will go where no human lawyer has gone before, thereby activating a dormant area for the benefit of lawyers / the legal profession and the legal buyer, that is, the latent legal market buyer.
According to the LSB in the UK, there is a £5bn latent legal services market in the UK alone, which is untapped due to consumers and businesses resisting using a human lawyer when they need one. Collectively, lawyers, entrepreneurs and social activists will begin to unlock this market in 2017.
As new legal buyers, and existing legal buyers, become more comfortable engaging with machine lawyers (AI Apps, bots, Robot Lawyers) and therefore human lawyers (as users of AI Apps and bots etc will need more advanced, delicate, sensitive and complex legal matters to be handled by a human lawyer), more people will begin to engage with (and turn to) human lawyers a great deal more for legal work as the law expands.
Albeit many providers will use AI Apps and Bots as marketing bait to fuel more complex and high value legal work to be done by human lawyers, some providers will develop AI Lawyer Robots that produce sophisticated outcomes in the form of intelligent assessments and high end documents; replacing the need for the human lawyer entirely for basic legal support / documents / advice etc.
2 One of the hottest topics in 2016 was Artificial Intelligence. When do you think AI will significantly change the market for legal services?
In 2017. Globally. It will be much sooner than many futurists, gurus, experts and consultants predict for the reasons I shared earlier. It won’t be 18 months, two, three, five or ten years from now. AI is already beginning to change the market in the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and South America, albeit in a tiny way in 2016. However, I predict 2017 will be a launch pad year when lawyers, suppliers and buyers will experience a notable shift in the way robot lawyers support and replace human lawyers, particularly in serving those people who have never accessed legal services and/or had that privilege before.
3 Legaltech startups dominated the news in 2016. Will they start becoming a threat to traditional vendors in 2017?
In relation to the legaltech startups that I am aware of, I would say that many of them could actually complement traditional vendors and would in fact enhance the overall service offering. In 2017 I would hope that the new legal startups (with their advanced technology) and traditional vendors (with their entrenched relationships) will collaborate and come together to provide a more complete service for law firms and/or direct to the legal buyer. Many of the new legal start-up products and services could plug into some existing vendor technology. Surely, this an opportunity and benefit for all, not a threat?
Curious to know more about Robot Lawyer LISA? Read all about LISA here and here. Follow LISA on twitter @RobotLawyerLISA
Author: Chrissie Lightfoot. One of the World’s Top Female Futurists; entrepreneur, legal futurist, legaltech investor, international keynote speaker, author, consultant, legal and business commentator (quoted periodically in The Times), solicitor (non-practising):
AI Lawyer Martini: law law land shaken
Posted on January 26th, 2017 by Chrissie Lightfoot
As the Global Legal Post reported today that the Law Society urges firms to harness the power of automation, the following article was the cover story published in the Leeds & Yorkshire Lawyer (the official journal of Leeds Law Society) titled AI and the rise of the robot on 20th December 2016 and is reproduced with kind permission. I was delighted to be interviewed and share some of my thoughts about AI in the legal eco-system and the benefits for lawyers, entrepreneurs, business people and consumers…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is slowly changing how law firms work. Should lawyers be worried about their futures?
Technology has been forcing subtle changes to the practice of law for decades now. Whether lawyers have welcomed all of the alterations to the way in which they work has almost been immaterial. They have had to adapt to the digital age and the very different app and device-led client expectations that have come with it.
With the growth in artificial intelligence (AI) however, we could be on the cusp of a new jump in technological development. A leap so profound that it could eliminate the need for a living breathing person to deal with some aspects of legal work.
Sounds too sci-fi ? Well, earlier this year, the chief executive of the Law Society, Catherine Dixon, gave a talk on the very subject, proving that those in the mainstream now take AI seriously.
Delivering a keynote address at the International Bar Association conference in Washington DC, Dixon talked about how lawyers needed to prepare for the increasing presence of AI. She told delegates that, on a worldwide scale, at least 22 fi rms were now making use of AI in their day-to-day operations, nine of which are based in the UK.
That number however, could be higher. As Dixon pointed out in her talk, there may be firms that use this type of technology who have not made it public. Others may still be in the testing and pilot phase. What was clear, she said, was that the legal market had now moved beyond the early adopter phase and was seeing a broader use of AI.
She chose to highlight four areas where AI was helping firms to improve their client services. The first is a software tool called KIRA which identifies relevant information from contracts. It is used for tasks such as due diligence and general commercial compliance.
The second was a system that uses natural language processing and machine learning to gain insights from large amounts of unstructured data. It provides citationsand suggests topical reading from a variety of sources more quickly and comprehensively than ever before, leading to better advice and faster problem solving. IBM has one popular tool, called Watson.
The third was Luminance, a piece of software that automatically reads and understands hundreds of pages of detailed and complex legal documents every minute. And the fourth was a tool developed by companies such as ThoughtRiver, called Technology-assisted review (TAR). This is used by firms in litigation for electronic disclosure in many jurisdictions – including the US, Ireland and England and Wales.
In use
One of the areas of legal work which could see an acceleration in the use of AI is personal injury claims, according to Mark Hewitt, managing director at software provider Rebmark. He says that pressures on fees could well drive its adoption faster than in other areas of legal work.
“AI can speed up the more laborious aspects of handling an injury case – like telling a lawyer which pages of medical records contain references to pain, spine, or similar groups of words so as not to miss anything,” says Hewitt.
“AI could also be used to evaluate medical outcomes on a scale that ensures expert opinions are so statistically accurate that challenges to their conclusions become futile. AI could then read the pleadings from each side and predict the outcome based on results of other cases while accounting for litigation risk.”
“In the future, could agreed compensation be based on data from other cases evaluated by AI in a fraction of a second? Once investigations and evidence gathering are complete, could the outcome be predicted by a machine?”
Before AI is put to such use however, a number of perimeters need to be agreed and established, says Roy Russell, CEO of Ascertus, a company that provides information and software solutions to law firms.
“Undoubtedly, AI offers tremendous potential and some large law firms have launched initiatives to leverage the technology,” he says.
“However, there’s a significant amount of work to be done in defining the ethical and legal boundaries for AI, before the technology can truly be utilised for delivering legal services to clients with minimal human involvement. Until then, in 2017 and perhaps for a few more years yet, we will continue to see incremental innovative efforts to leverage the technology, but in the vein of commoditisation – similar to what we have seen in the last 12 months.”
Say hello to LISA
But the dawn of fully automated legal services may be closer than Russell imagines, according to one former lawyer and legal futurist, Chrissie Lightfoot.
The Yorkshire-based Lightfoot, who has written and spoken extensively about technology and its impact on the role of tomorrow’s lawyer, has co-developed a lawyer robot with Adam Duthie, the managing partner at Duthie & Co, a niche corporate firm in London.
Lightfoot calls the robot LISA, short for legal intelligence support assistant and, to start with, is offering it for free to small businesses in the UK.
The robot, operating as an app, will at first help entrepreneurs to draw up non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) and is designed to eliminate lawyers from tasks where both sides can work together. Lightfoot explains that LISA is initially being used as a tool to encourage entrepreneurs and business owners to take legal advice when they might otherwise be deterred by a perception of prohibitive law fees. It will draft basic NDAs for both sides in a deal, which, according to Lightfoot, would normally cost each party up to £500 if left in the hands of a traditional lawyer.
“LISA is going where no human lawyer has gone before in the hope of activating a dormant area for the benefit of the legal profession and the legal buyer,” she says.
“According to the LSB, there is a £5 billion latent legal services market which is untapped due to consumers and businesses resisting using a lawyer when they need one. Collectively we can unlock this market. Lawyers [can] let the technology deal with the basic legal needs for this unmet need and use it as a marketing tool and new lead generator. [Then they can] focus on achieving the higher value cerebral work they actually enjoy and can charge a premium for.”
Lightfoot calls LISA an “AI lawyer martini”. Available anywhere, at any time, and on any day, she says it is accurate and intuitive, incredibly fast, impartial and above all, inclusive.
“It’s the world’s first truly AI Lawyer that helps both sides of a legal matter, at the same time,” she explains.
“No longer will many citizens around the world be excluded from basic legal help that will help them move on to greater things in business and life.
“I always get asked, ‘What do you think is the next big thing in the legal world? The answer is this. Robot lawyers like LISA.”
Losing human jobs?
Lightfoot is adamant, however, that LISA is not going to consign human practitioners to the dustbin of history. Complicated legal problems and agreements will still need the human touch, she says.
In her talk in Washington DC, Dixon addressed the same fear, saying that concerns have been raised about job automation in the legal services sector. She juxtaposed research by Deloitte with that carried out by the Warwick Institute for Employment Research. The former said that about 114,000 jobs were likely to become automated in the next 20 years due to AI in England and Wales.
Warwick countered this by estimating that 25,000 extra workers would be needed in the legal activities sector between 2015 and 2020.
The evidence, therefore was inconclusive, said Dixon who also stressed that the picture was much more complex than the media headlines suggested.
“AI will never replace the need for lawyers in PI and clinical negligence law, something we’re keen to stress,” says Hewitt.
“We’re not replacing lawyers, but developing software to make your job easier and more profitable. The human side of a lawyer’s role in a serious injury claim is what most do the job for. For claimant lawyers, making a difference isn’t all about the level of damages secured, but about helping an individual through a traumatic time in their life.
“This requires empathy. And trust.”
Curious to know more about LISA? Read all about LISA here and here.
LISA’s AI support, talent, service and products are the result of the combined AI platform of Neota Logic, the legal intelligence of Adam Duthie of Duthie & Co LLP, and the creativity, imagination, commercial knowledge, experience and vision of yours truly, Chrissie Lightfoot, Co-founder, Robot Lawyer LISA.
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AI? Not worth the paper it’s written on…
Posted on December 7th, 2016 by Chrissie Lightfoot
This article was written by me and published in The Huffington Post on 7th Dec 2016 with the title “Not worth the paper it’s written on…”, and is reproduced with kind permission:
Innovation and bright legal minds working together to clean up, reinvigorate and unlock the multi-billion latent legal market for consumers and entrepreneurs.
Every day there is a new revelation in the media about how AI and robots are increasingly affecting change in our daily lives. However very little is written about how as entrepreneurs we could benefit directly from professional services using AI to help us to start, develop and grow our business.
So it’s exciting for me, as an ‘entrepreneur lawyer’ to throw a spotlight on the legal sector where some standard services are now being executed by AI and/or robots (intelligent machines) instead of a human lawyer.
The sector is displaying encouraging trends where increasing numbers of new AI Apps and Bots are being deployed by lawyers, law firms and new entrants to the legal market, often free of charge and helping to engage and protect a latent consumer market and empower the SME business market.
On the consumer side one of the biggest successes reported so far is ‘Do Not Pay’, a bot created by Stanford student Joshua Browder at the start of 2016 to help people appeal parking fines. Recently in the UK, 4 Cambridge students created ‘LawBot’ which conveys insight and advice for victims of crime. On the other side of the world there’s Robot Lawyers Australia where consumers can avail of free services relating to minor offences.
The market is simmering across the global legal spectrum in the ‘social good’ realm but I envisage it’s about to kick-off positively for entrepreneurs. Robot Lawyer LISA – the ‘Legal Intelligence Support Assistant’ – was unleashed a fortnight ago. LISA initially generates free NDAs (confidentiality agreements) for entrepreneurs, business owners and consumers.
LISA can help you:
- Get your basic legal questions answered and documents drafted and an agreement achieved on terms that are fair and reasonable for both sides;
- Find the middle ground for you and ‘the other side’ through guidance to help you move forward without the costly interference of a human lawyer on each side; and
- Assess whether you fall within the law or outside.
It’s sometimes said that “NDA’s aren’t worth the paper they are written on.” But you and I need legally watertight documentation rather than 3rd party NDA documents or free downloaded templates that do not secure our ideas nor help our businesses grow. The idea that free, human lawyer equivalent, high quality, cost & time effective AI App and Bot legal services and products like LISA, LawBot, DoNotPay etc help us ‘help ourselves’ is coming to fruition, and here to stay.
I predict a proliferation of these kinds of new legal services and products. These innovations in the legal sector should be embraced by all sides, showing the benefits to each stakeholder, from the lawyer through consumer and to the entrepreneur.
Author: Chrissie Lightfoot, one of the World’s Top Women Futurists.
CEO AI Tech Support Ltd & CEO Entrepreneur Lawyer Ltd
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