“There’s a lot of hype out there about Gen AI in the legal space, but there’s a reality within that hype that there are some real products, they really work and they’re transformational,” says Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK and Ireland.
It may seem like a distant memory by now, but it was November 2022 when most legal professionals were first introduced to the world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) technology with the commercial debut of ChatGPT. That tool was soon followed by launches of Gen AI offerings from Google, Microsoft and other major tech companies.
These open-web AI tools amazed users with their ability to seemingly create new content out of thin air in response to simple search queries, and tech-savvy lawyers began dreaming of use cases for this new technology, from drafting client emails to summarizing lengthy documents for a brief that is due the next morning. It didn’t take long, though, before lawyers learned that these open-web AI tools were not designed for the legal environment. ChatGPT was great for planning a vacation itinerary in Hawaii, not so great with surfacing court decisions to support a legal argument.
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