Overview

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming part of the legal landscape, offering significant opportunities for lawyers and law firms to improve efficiency, enhance client services and develop new ways of working. However, its use also brings important professional, regulatory, ethical and data protection risks.

The Master of the Rolls has highlighted that a failure to engage appropriately with AI could, in some circumstances, amount to negligence. At the same time, findings and warnings from the SRA demonstrate the potential consequences when AI is used without appropriate oversight and safeguards.

This webinar will explore both the opportunities and the pitfalls of AI in legal practice. Delegates will consider the developing case law, the common blind spots that can arise when lawyers and teams use AI, and practical ways to monitor and manage its use across different departments.

The session will also examine data protection considerations, provide an overview of the growing LawTech market, with more than 400 products currently available, and explore how firms can assess existing solutions or potentially develop their own AI-enabled tools.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the webinar, delegates will be able to:

• Understand key case law and regulatory developments relating to the use of AI in legal practice.
• Identify common risks and blind spots when lawyers and teams use AI.
• Recognise the responsibilities of partners, COLPs and other senior stakeholders in overseeing the appropriate use of AI.
• Consider practical approaches to checking and managing AI use across different departments.
• Understand key data protection and confidentiality issues arising from the use of AI.
• Identify potential AI and LawTech solutions already available to the legal market.
• Assess where AI could create opportunities to improve efficiency, service delivery and client outcomes.
• Understand the importance of maintaining appropriate human oversight and the role of the Human in the Loop.
• Consider how a firm might develop or commission its own AI-enabled tools while maintaining appropriate governance and safeguards.