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AI & Law: Legal Judgment Prediction
by Dr. Lance B. Eliot
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Key briefing points about this article:
- Lawyers are continually having to try and predict what will happen in a legal case
- Legal Judgment Prediction (LJP) involves devising computer models for making such predictions
- The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is aiming to boost the predictive capabilities of LJP
- There are advantages and also downsides to using AI-powered LJP predictions
- If AI LJP becomes superbly predictive it could have a dramatic judicial impact
Introduction
You might say that lawyers are inexorably in the continual midst of making predictions. They do so while in the middle of a legal battle, they do so once a case result is proclaimed and thus have to predict whether an appeal might follow, they make predictions before a case even gets underway, and so on.
Being in the legal field is a boatload of predicting, along with facing numerous underwater minefields and…
