Powering Legal Strategy, Process and Results: AI's Impact on Litigation

Few technologies have garnered more hype in the legal world than artificial intelligence. A buzzword in every sense, AI has been promised to solve every challenge in legal practice, from contract creation and predicting the duration and outcome of a case, to patent analysis, alternative billing and document review. The lines between AI’s broader potential and actual, practical capabilities, have been blurred time and again.

In this article, FTI Consulting’s Brian Stuart and Grainne Bryan discuss the reality, in which the hype cycle remains ahead of actual impact. We are nowhere near a world in which AI replaces the role, legal expertise and strategic value of lawyers. Rather, we are seeing progress toward its ability to augment legal work and create more time and mental capacity for lawyers to focus on higher-value tasks.

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