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06 September 2024 / Dr Charanjit Singh
Issue: 8084 / Categories: Features , Profession , Technology , Artificial intelligence
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Gen AI: disrupting the legal profession

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Gen AI could provide game-changing solutions & enhanced security for law firms. Dr Charanjit Singh explores the potential
  • Examines advents in disruptive generative AI that could provide solutions in legal practice.
  • Explores ethical issues and matters pertaining to discrimination and bias, safeguarding, and mitigation.
  • Notes the current position in relation to investment in disruptive generative AI.

The word ‘disruption’, in a technological sense, has become synonymous with the term ‘innovation’, and much of the technologically led disruptive innovation can be seen in the FinTech space. Advents in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have been a tour de force in changing the way people consume services and products but also in how organisations do business and regulators regulate. There have been advances in the way that AI now performs complex, technical, and tedious or time-consuming tasks. Once again, the finance industry is leading the charge; it has been quietly developing the power of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) as an operational tool.

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NEWS
The Law Society RFC Festival of Sport returns next month, bringing together legal and financial services professionals for one of the sector’s largest annual sporting events
Legal aid deserts leave almost one in four without adequate access to justice
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has warned solicitors and law firms that using artificial intelligence does not alter their professional obligations, amid concerns over inaccurate legal material and client confidentiality
From forgotten interest claims to case-management appeals, a string of procedural developments offers useful—and occasionally cautionary—lessons for practitioners

Jonathan Fisher KC highlights that it now accounts for around 40% of criminal offences, with roughly 70% involving technology, and argues that the UK cannot simply prosecute its way out of the problem. Detection, investigation and prosecution all require improvement, while different fraud types demand tailored responses.

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