Artificial Intelligence In The Legal Profession: A Critical Analysis Of Innovation, Ethics, And Governance
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Abhijeet Upadhyay, New Law College, Bharati Vidyapeeth
Khushi Chauhan, New Law College, Bharati Vidyapeeth
ABSTRACT
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming virtually every facet of law today: research; document creation; predictive analytics; and even access to the courts themselves are now all being subjected to revolutionary changes. This article analyzes the impact of AI across a number of areas of legal practice, the adjudication system, legal education, and the entire justice system. Using over fifty different reliable sources (academic research, court rulings and rulings on appeal by courts, bar association materials and research conducted empirically), this article looks at the potential transformative effect of AI on legal practice as well as the risks and ethical issues that accompany that effect and the regulatory framework that is being created to regulate both. Although AI offers much greater efficiency than ever before in being accessible to legal service provider‚ it is also raising questions around the issues of algorithmic bias, confidentiality, professional conduct, and whether AI may eventually take over providing legal services for individuals. The legal profession must find a way to embrace fully AI into its practice based upon ethical principles and in a way that has enough flexibility in the regulatory environment to allow the profession the opportunity to reap benefits from ethical utilization of AI without harming the rule of law; the justice system; and client interests. This paper further explores the dynamics of the Artificial Intelligence, while also covering the ethical and professional responsibility challenges. This paper also explores the evolution of legal education with a special emphasis on the Artificial Intelligence, while also focusing on the regulatory reactions and the future direction in the development of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal profession.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Academic Research, Algorithmic Bias, Empirical, Regulatory Environment.
