AI For Lawyers

Discover how artificial intelligence can improve how your organization practices law with this compelling resource from the creators of one of the world’s leading legal AI platforms.

AI for Lawyers: How Artificial Intelligence is Adding Value, Amplifying Expertise, and Transforming Careers explains how artificial intelligence can be used to revolutionize your organization’s operations. Noah Waisberg and Dr. Alexander Hudek, a lawyer and a computer science Ph.D. who lead prominent legal AI business Kira Systems, have written an approachable and insightful book that will help you transform how your firm functions.

AI for Lawyers explains how artificial intelligence can help your law firm:

• Win more business and find more clients
• Better meet and exceed client expectations
• Find hidden efficiencies
• Better manage and eliminate risk
• Increase associate and partner engagement

Whether focusing on small or big law, AI for Lawyers is perfect for any lawyer who either feels uneasy about how AI might change law or is looking to capitalize on the evolving practice. With contributions from experts in the fields of e-Discovery, legal research, expert systems, and litigation analytics, it also belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who’s interested in the intersection of law and technology.

FOREWORD xi

INTRODUCTION xiii

Part I The Point: AI in law is here to stay. It's time to take advantage 1

1 How Lawyers Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI 3

2 #DoMoreLaw: How Doing Work More Efficiently Can Create More Legal Work, Not Less 21

3 The Small Law Mindset: Bringing Biglaw Capabilities to Smaller Firms 43

4 AI: A Modern Job Creator: The New Legal Mindsets, Skill Sets, and Jobs That Are in Demand 51

5 Amplifying Legal Expertise: From One-to-One Advisory to Scalable, One-to-Many Service Delivery 71

6 The Ethics of Lawyers Using—and Not Using—AI 81

Part II The Proof: AI technologies are delivering results today 93

7 eDiscovery: What It Is and How AI Is Continuing to Transform How It Works for You 95
By Dera Nevin

8 AI in Legal Research: How AI Is Providing Everyone Access to Information and Leveling the Playing Field for Firms of All Sizes 107
By Jake Heller, Co-Founder and CEO, Casetext
Laura Safdie, Co-Founder, COO, and General Counsel, Casetext
Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Casetext

9 Litigation Analytics: The Emergence of Analytics in Law and Why It's Now Dangerous to Practice Litigation Without Data 119
By Anthony Niblett, Co-Founder of Blue J Legal

10 Contract Review to Contract Capital: How Ubiquitous Access to Contract Analysis Software Will Transform Legal and Business Practices 131

11 Expert Systems: Self-Service Law and the Automation of Legal Question-Answering 145
By Michael Mills, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Neota Logic

Part III The Plan: Leverage data and AI to expand and future proof your practice 153

12 The AI Adoption Framework: Understanding the Adoption Path That Will Help You Get Ahead and Build the Practice of the Future 155

13 Conclusion 165

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 171

ABOUT THE AUTHORS 173

INDEX 175

NOAH WAISBERG is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kira Systems, whose legal AI software is used by a majority of the world's leading law firms and numerous corporations. Previously, he practiced corporate law at the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City.

ALEXANDER HUDEK, PHD, is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kira Systems. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Previously, he made contributions to the field of bioinformatics and helped create the first public draft of human chromosome 7 as part of the human genome project.

A I For Lawyers demonstrates how even a modest investment of time and money into the innovative technologies of AI and machine learning can drive significant results in any firm.

Authors Noah Waisberg and Dr. Alexander Hudek of Kira Systems, the world's leading legal artificial intelligence platform, describe a framework for adopting artificial intelligence in your firm in accessible and practical detail. They also discuss how AI is being used today to achieve substantial results for law firms around the world and how AI will likely shape the legal world in the years to come in areas that have yet to be transformed by digital technology.

You'll learn how artificial intelligence is improving business development and increasing client retention, improving case outcomes, creating new efficiencies, managing risks, and boosting employee, associate, and partner engagement by enabling them to do more meaningful work. Learn how all of these benefits, and many more, are made possible by AI advances in the areas of judicial prediction and analysis, expert systems, contract analysis, legal research, and eDiscovery.

Perfect for partners, associates, and administrators in firms big and small, as well as in-house lawyers and legal ops professionals, AI For Lawyers delivers information crucial to understanding the future of law. New and aspiring lawyers will find this book indispensable, as it details exciting career options and trajectories that weren't possible only a few years ago.

Praise for AI FOR LAWYERS

"This book brings AI down to earth with an admirable lightness of touch."
—Richard Susskind, author of Tomorrow's Lawyers

"I learned a great deal from this engaging book. It was a quick, page-turning read. I highly recommend it." —Brad Karp, Chairman, Paul Weiss

"Noah and Alexander have written a classic. This is everything you ever wanted to know about technology and the law but never dared ask. Through their lucid explanations of how the technology works, how it can be applied, and how it's fast-improving, your eyes will be opened to a future of legal practice that is more enjoyable, profitable, and just. As the pace of technological change accelerates exponentially, this book provides an accessible way to jump in and become part of the revolution."
—David Morley, Global Managing Partner, Global Senior Partner (2003–2016), Allen &Overy; Consultant & Portfolio Chair (2017–)

"This important new book provides a clear and concise guide to how artificial intelligence and related technologies are reshaping the market for legal services. Utilizing their unparalleled experience as the founders of the most important legal AI company and their extensive contacts in the industry, Waisberg and Hudek offer a thoughtful examination of the costs—and even more importantly, the benefits—of the application of technology to law. It should be required reading for anyone who cares about the future of our legal system."
—David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

"AI For Lawyers is the definitive guide to artificial intelligence in the law. This isn't surprising given that Noah and Alexander created an AI-based business that's contributed to redefining the legal industry. Filled with insights and practical tips, every lawyer and legal professional should read this book."
—James Goodnow, CEO (Managing Partner), Fennemore Craig, P.C.

"Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing the practice of law and the global legal market. Lawyers have to learn not to live with it but to love it. What Waisberg and Hudek tell us about AI in law practice will at first be as disorienting, but then as reorienting, as was Richard Susskind's The End of Lawyers? a generation ago."
—Stephen Gillers, Elihu Root Professor of Law, NYU School of Law