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AI in the Legal Sector – an Overview for Information Professionals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2023

Jordan Murphy
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Abstract

If there are any two letters that represent the zeitgeist of our profession, and indeed the world at large, they are A and I. AI, of course, stands for artificial intelligence, a subject that we've covered quite extensively in LIM, and are sure to continue to do so. One such article was in our Volume 22 Number 2 (Summer, 2022) issue and was penned by Jake Hearn, the assistant librarian at the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and a member of the LIM Editorial Board. In this article Jordan Murphy, the Chair of the City Legal Information Group, reports from a presentation Jake gave to CLIG in April 2023 in which the views expressed in his original piece were updated and expanded.

Keywords

legal information professionalsartificial intelligenceAI
Type
Main Features
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 150 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 Hearn, Jake ‘“A library is a growing organism”: redefining artificial intelligence and the role of the information professional in the corporate legal world’, Legal Information Management 2022, 22(2), 81-85CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Robin Chesterman “Let's Chat about Chat GPT” (2023) Plenary session 1, BIALL conference 2023

3 Wiggins, Samuel “Reflections on current trends and predictions for commercial law libraries” Legal Information Management (2019) 19(2) 94-9CrossRefGoogle Scholar, discussed in Garingan, Dominique and Pickard, Alison Jane ‘Artificial intelligence in legal practice: exploring theoretical frameworks for algorithmic literacy in the legal information profession’ Legal Information Management (2021) 21(2) 97-117CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 “Webinar On Demand: AI in Action: Real-Life examples of how law firms and individuals are using AI today” (The Lawyer, May 2023). Available at <www.thelawyer.com/ai-in-action-real-life-examples-of-how-law-firms-and-individuals-are-using-ai-today/> Accessed 15 July 2023.

5 Thomson Reuters Institute,“ChatGPT and Generative AI within Law Firms” (2023), page 4. <https://on24static.akamaized.net/event/42/03/42/4/rt/1/documents/resourceList1686256379808/chatgptgenerativeaiinlawfirms1686256364964.pdf> Accessed 15 July 2023.

6 <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A52021PC0206> Accessed 15 July 2023.

7 <www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach/white-paper> Accessed 15 July 2023.