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11 September 2024
Issue: 8085 / Categories: Legal News , Technology , Artificial intelligence , Profession
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Lawyers predict increased time saving with AI

UK lawyers believe AI technology could save them nearly 140 hours of work per year

A Thomson Reuters report, ‘Future of professionals 2024’, surveyed 1,200 legal professionals, more than half of whom thought the potential for time saving was the most exciting aspect of AI.

The lawyers predicted they would save three hours a week within the first year of using artificial intelligence (AI), seven hours by the third year and up to 11 hours after five years.

Kriti Sharma, chief product officer, legal tech at Thomson Reuters, said: ‘It’s exciting to see law firms running AI pilot programmes and making long-term investments in the technology as trust around safe usage grows.’

In January, LexisNexis launched a generative AI product, Lexis+ AI, in the UK, which uses LexisNexis’s own authoritative content. It delivers search, summarisation and drafting for legal professionals, incorporating privacy by design since customers’ searches don’t feed the language model.

MOVERS & SHAKERS

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NEWS
Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners 
A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent
Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’
A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’ 
Family law must shift from conflict-driven litigation to child-centred problem-solving, according to a major new report. Writing in NLJ this week, Caroline Bowden of Anthony Gold outlines findings showing overwhelming support for reform, with 92% agreeing lawyers owe duties to children as well as clients
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