The rise of automated legal advice

Thursday 20th August 2015

The FT’s Emma Jacobs reviews Jerry Kaplan’s Humans need not apply, in which he states that high-skill level professions are under as much threat from technology as drivers and fruit pickers. Kaplan notes the work of legal tech start-up, FairDocument, or Judicata, which uses machine learning and converts text - such as legal principles or cases - into structured information that can be used to find relevant case law. Kaplan writes: “An increasing number of start-ups are bypassing restraints on how and by whom law can be practised by offering automated legal advice…they may employ a small staff of attorneys to ‘review’ documents before they are released to clients.”

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