AI is reshaping industries worldwide, and the legal industry is no exception. As the leading provider of legal tech solutions in the arbitration industry, Jus Mundi unveiled earlier this year Jus AI Assistant, an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solution that revolutionizes the way the global arbitration community shapes winning strategies.
We interviewed our Early Access Program participants, which are law firms leading the way in innovation, to gather their insights on Jus AI Assistant and how the tool accelerates their legal research, streamlines their workflows, and elevate their strategic analysis.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has a long history of representing clients in international commercial and investor-state arbitrations, including construction, energy and infrastructure disputes. Their International Arbitration Practice comprises a multidisciplinary and globally integrated team that helps businesses avoid or resolve disputes efficiently and effectively around the world.
They assist clients in navigating international conflicts at every stage of the process, from drafting effective arbitration clauses, to avoiding a dispute through negotiation, to conducting high-stakes arbitrations, to enforcing foreign judgments and arbitral awards in local courts around the world.
We talked to Leith Ben Ammar, Of Counsel, and Johnny Shearman, Practice Group Lawyer, to discuss Greenberg Traurig’s vision and usage of generative AI, and especially Jus AI Assistant.
What is Greenberg Traurig’s strategy when it comes to generative AI & emerging technologies?
Leith Ben Ammar: As a law firm with a global footprint operating in a rapidly changing world, we take a proactive approach when it comes to the resources available to us, which includes Gen AI and other emerging technologies. Our focus is on developing and deploying experience-based innovation. That’s innovation that we know delivers enhanced value, better insights and more predictability for our clients. We also understand the risks associated with emerging technologies, so inherent to our strategy is a consideration of how best to control these risks and, as appropriate, installing guard rails around usage.
What motivated your firm to participate in Jus AI Assistant Early Access Program?
Johnny Shearman: It was driven by the proactive approach that Leith mentioned. We like to know what’s in the market and, in my experience, participating in an initiative at an early stage brings with it further learning potential. Engaging with the Jus AI Assistant Early Access Program gave us an opportunity to gain fresh insights on the large volume of arbitration-focused data available on Jus Mundi’s platform. It has also provided a further opportunity to understand some of the challenges and risks associated with the use of Gen AI.
What feature did you particularly found useful and why?
Johnny Shearman: Being able to ask questions of Jus AI Assistant in natural language is really useful. Whilst I’ve become proficient in the use of Boolean search, it can still take a few attempts to finesse the search terms and operators. However, being able to ask Jus AI Assistant a question as you would a colleague changes the way you can interrogate the underlying data.
Leith Ben Ammar: The fact that the Assistant is multilingual and can translate its answers and the existing source material on Jus Mundi’s platform is great. As the name suggests, international arbitration is truly international at times, and the disputes that arise can transcend jurisdictions and languages. There may be a need to review a decision given in French one day and Spanish the next. Jus AI Assistant helps with this language transition.
Having footnote references embedded in the Assistant’s answers, to check the primary sources on which its answers are based, is another feature which I find particularly helpful and important.
As AI tools continue to rapidly evolve within the legal field, what skill sets do you anticipate will become indispensable for lawyers to thrive in their profession?
Leith Ben Ammar: Like all technology, many users don’t use it to its full potential. To some extent, the same will apply to AI tools. Those law firms that understand how the tool can be leveraged and make the most of its functionality stand to benefit and so in turn do their clients.
Johnny Shearman: Gen AI is a tool to be deployed and it is important that its use case and limitations are understood. In my view, Gen AI is already and will continue to impact how we all assess and harness large volumes of data. The skill will be how we use these tools to access that data to inform the decision-making process for us and our clients.
In what ways do you believe AI has influenced the legal industry so far? What do you foresee will be the impact of AI on the arbitration world?
Leith Ben Ammar: If we recognise that AI is an umbrella term for a wide range of algorithm-based technologies, you start to appreciate that AI has been deployed in the dispute resolution world for several years now. By way of example, eDiscovery platforms have developed continuous active learning models to assess what documents, compared to others, are more likely to be relevant to the underlying dispute. In data rich industries like construction, these models can make the review of documents more efficient.
Johnny Shearman: We currently reside in the zettabyte era of data. A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes or a billion terabytes. Put simply, it’s a whole lot of data and every email, every recording, and every arbitration award only serves to increase the amount of data that exists. That’s the reality for the arbitration world going forward. As a result, for many arbitration lawyers, AI will become a feature of some of the day-to-day tasks that they perform: for example, legal research, arbitrator selection, contract analysis and document summarisation. It will be exciting to see how it all unfolds over the next 5 to 10 years.
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