AI & Law: The Liquid Legal Transformation

Making the liquid legal transformation become a reality

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• The practice of law can be said to be stuck-in-the-mud, inflexible, bloated, etc.
• Some are calling for the legal profession to become nimbly liquescent
• In particular, the Liquid Legal Institute is a non-profit entity focused on this aspiration
• Part of their vital effort includes an open collaborative Common Legal Platform (CLP)
• The legal profession all-told needs to come together and aid collectively in this goal

Introduction

Let’s talk about liquids.

Not just about any kind of liquid. I’m referring specifically to liquid legal. That certainly must seem an unusual phrasing, perhaps intriguing to you and not at all the type of catchphrase that you are likely used to seeing in the everyday throes of your law practice.

Allow me a moment to back up and provide a greater context to the matter at hand.