Artificial Intelligence applied to legal profession it would allow for a complete reformulation of the profession with a consequent strong reduction in employment and new ways of carrying out consultancy.
But is AI really the enemy of the profession and justice?
Our co-manning partner, Avv., gives their opinion on the topic. Claudio Bonora and our associate the lawyer. Gianmaria Pesce in an article published in the magazine ItalyToday.
« There are many activities in the legal field that require not only memory and the ability to organize it, but also legal and social science and culture, common sense, humanity and empathy, all quality that cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence. We would appreciate not so much a position taken of the legislator but above all a more active role of the Bar Associations capable of identifying the critical issues, including ethical ones, of these practices and their possible effects on the relationships between lawyers and other subjects operating in the sector. Guidelines must be developed to ensure that artificial intelligence is used in a fair and ethicalArtificial intelligence will have negative effects first and foremost on the education of young lawyers. A law firm will certainly have less interest in hiring and training young graduates and trainee lawyers if a computer is able to produce targeted research, in-depth document analysis and basic documents autonomously. From an economic point of view, AI will penalize the studies further reducing the fees for many activities such as due diligence, opinions, M&A and will increase the already existing gap in clients' orientation towards large firms capable of facing the investments needed to favour increasingly immediate responses and small firms, whose competitive capacity will be limited to…»
