AI & Law: Lawyers As Coders
6 min readFeb 4, 2021
by Dr. Lance B. Eliot
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Key briefing points about this article:
- There is tremendous interest (and rancor) about the proposition of lawyers-as-coders
- Some assert that the future of the law and especially via AI will radically impact attorneys
- As such the argument exists that lawyers would be prudent to learn about coding
- Counterarguments are that lawyers should stick with their knitting and let coders code
- A recent webinar by Northwestern University is used herein to explore these tradeoffs
Introduction
Lawyers and coding.
The odds are that you’ve seen headlines stating that lawyers-as-coders is the latest and hottest trend.
If you’ve had a chance to mull over the notion, you are likely to have landed into one of three dominant categories. There are those lawyers that completely buy into the lawyers-as-coders proclamation and believe in it, fervently so. Meanwhile, some lawyers think the…
