AI in the Legal Profession: A Technology-driven Revolution in Law

Pradakshina Sarmah

Artificial Intelligence has changed the work structure and framework of many industries.AI has brought a paradigm shift in the way legal research was carried out without a degree of doubt, AI has the ability to transform the manner in which legal practitioners operate. With the application of AI, the legal practitioners can get insights into the relevant case laws and provisions they were looking for with the help of an AI-enabled legal search engine.

AI has brought a considerable amount of downfall in the expenditure of various legal practitioners, law firms and legal offices. By supplementing the legal research domain with AI technology, it has reduced the long hours of work that were earlier required to go through vastcommentaries and journals.

Moreover, the efficient tools of AI enabled search engines are used to help the legal professionals efficiently and advising their clients to enhance their litigating skills.Although,in the practical sense the AI- driven robots cannot replace their position with the legal practitioners,however,they can surely assist lawyers in the creation and drafting of documents.By outsourcing these works to remote AI-based services,the clerical work of legal practitioners can be reduced to a great extent,leaving them with more time which they can devote and utilise in their core works.

AI systems for legal use in India are as follows:

For Legal Research & Analytics-Manupatra, SCC Online, Case Mine and Legit Quest

For Drafting and Document Review-iDRAF, lawfyi.io, Bharat Law AI, SUVAS, SUPACE

For Litigation and other uses-Digi Lawyer,Kira Systems (India Pack)

These tools leverage NLP (Natural language processing) to enhance efficiency in legal research, contract analysis, and document automation specifically tailored to the legal system.

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Key uses of AI in Legal Research

AI is changing the way lawyers do their jobs by automating boring repetitivetasks, improving legal research and letting legal practitioners make decisions based on intangible data in many areas of law.

1.Legal Research Automation

India has a lot of case laws, statutes, and regulations which makes legal research lengthy and time consuming.AI tools like Case mine, SCCOnline, Legit Quest and Manupatra’s AI-based search engines that make it easier to do legal research. The legal research automation allows features like-

*Contextual search using NLP (Natural Language Processing)

* Citation analysis and Judgments cross-referencing

*Predictive case outcomes based on precedent.

2.Contract Review and Drafting

Startups like Spot Draft and MikeLegal are building systems for contract lifecycle management.

*It facilitates automated clause identification

*Risks flagging based on preset legal rules

*Suggesting clauses from historical data.

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3.Judicial Assistance

India’s Judiciary is testing AI tools to manage its massive pendency of suites. In 2020, the Supreme Court of India launched SUPACE (Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Courts Efficiency), an AI-driven research tool to assist judges by summarizing case files, highlighting precedents, and streamlining administrative functions.

Furthermore, courts like Delhi High Court and Bombay High Court are experimenting with AI transcription and data analytics tools to expedite proceedings.

4.Legal Chatbots and Access to Justice

Law firms and legal aid groups are using chatbots that are powered by AI to give basic legal advice, help users write documents and walk them through the court procedure.

For those who cannot afford traditional legal representation, these are especially significant in enhancing access to justice at ease.

5. Compliance and Risk Management

AI is being used more and more in regulatory compliance.

AI is used by businesses to keep an eye on real-time transactions, find problems, and make sure they’re following international and local rules like GDPR, HIPAA AND FCPA.

With the imminent rise of efficiency, productivity and sustainability, there comes a myriad of socio-economic, political, institutional challenges that must be communicated to the inhabitants of the country so that they can utilise all the benefits of AI for economic prosperity and growth. This shall ensure efficacious justice to the masses.AI will enhance the way we think or perceive things and change the outlook by exploring new horizons from space and oceans. It will bring a revolution in mankind and can become the most powerful and dominant human invention in history.

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Writer Pradakshina Sarmah is an Aspiring legal professional| Eager to learn and grow

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