Artificial Intelligence and Law: Review of Task Automation Techniques and Tools

Abstract

The development of artificial intelligence is advancing ever faster and expanding into ever more areas of human activity. Although the development of artificial intelligence-based tools to support the legal profession has been going on for many years, lawyers are adopting information technologies somewhat more slowly than other professions. This paper analyzes the existing artificial intelligence techniques and tools for solving legal tasks and the possibilities they offer. The tools are categorized based on the types of legal tasks they solve and the techniques they apply. The results of the analysis show that there are tools that enable efficient automation of many tasks that are often repeated in the legal profession. However, it has been observed that these tools can usually only be afforded by larger firms and that in smaller firms most of the work is still done manually (although smaller firms may benefit the most from the introduction of these tools).