Precedent Automation Conference speaker Marc Lauritsen is interviewed for Law Practice by Mark Tamminga who co-authored the ABA’s book “The Lawyer’s Guide to Extranets” with Doug Simpson who spoke at our recent Online Legal Services Conference. One of Marc’s interests is Artifical Intelligience (AI) which is “quietly showing up in commercial products.”
As to what will soon emerge from obscurity to play a role in law practice, he said:
- e-lawyering – the delivery of legal services over the Web (He co-chairs the ABA’s eLawyering Task Force with Richard Granat);
- “lightweight, yellow-pad-like devices will … emerge before long and reshape our legal computing behaviour” (Lawyers Worskstation Conference speaker, the TabletLawyer would agree);
- “intelligence augmentation” (IA)–a catch-phrase for methods that use people in large numbers to perform tasks that computers are’t good at yet, like recognizing pictures and answering questions in plain English.
He went on to say that “Maybe we’ll pay hordes of lawyers in the developing world a fee for spotting arguments in draft briefs that fail the laugh test.”