While the increasing implementation and adoption of generative AI is exciting and new for many professionals, those in the legal industry must take a nuanced approach to determining appropriate use cases for GenAI. After all, adding value and avoiding “workslop” should be the paramount goal of incorporating AI into legal workflows. Understanding appropriate and valuable use cases is an important first step to adding AI to your firm’s, or your own, toolbelt.
With the right use cases, GenAI has the potential to automate many tasks in the legal industry. It is not just a possibility, but a promising reality, that this new technology streamlines productivity and efficiency when done right. GenAI works to complete tedious tasks, helps clarify work, and accomplishes mundane procedural tasks in a fraction of the time these have traditionally taken. The challenge is to identify and prioritize use cases when there is an explosion of marketing pitches and noise around GenAI in the legal marketplace.
Ensuring that attorneys are well trained on GenAI Fundamentals is a start. The SkillBurst series, with its practical activities and worksheets, is a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing GenAI, with a specific focus on the unique considerations of the legal profession. It also includes guidance on appropriate use cases. For example, GenAI integration is especially relevant in litigation use cases, as it can aid in value-add ways at any point in the lifecycle. The series explains how GenAI could be helpful in litigation processes like pleadings, discovery, pre-trial, post-trial, and others. As part of our commitment to actionable insights, it reviews the specific GenAI use cases in each of those categories. Users will learn how to prompt GenAI tools to optimally complete tasks, and the series explicitly addresses the relevance of GenAI in drafting complaints, forming counterarguments, and creating questions.
Other areas of law are also ripe for improvements using GenAI. Transactional practices and consultation involve hours of time-consuming tasks, and what better way to efficiently and effectively achieve your goals than by using GenAI as a dedicated assistant? Because of GenAI’s intuitive language interface and organizational capabilities, multiple phases of the transactional law lifecycle could benefit from GenAI use. The SkillBurst series explicitly outlines the aspects of transactions where your practice would best benefit from GenAI, as well as how to strategically apply GenAI in transactional workflows. The series also emphasizes the importance of balancing GenAI use with issues such as capturing conversations and performing discretionary tasks, to ensure that clients still interact with a partner that values and respects them and those interactions remain confidential and secure.
Through the SkillBurst GenAI Fundamentals series lessons on use cases, users are introduced to the benefits and limitations of GenAI. Users of the modules will be able to recognize and evaluate the transformative power of GenAI applications and learn to evolve alongside the technological revolution of this transformative technology. The series aims to address the changing nature of technology in the legal sphere while recognizing the importance of the “human touch” and client-partner relationships. SkillBurst effectively instructs users on the importance of balancing technology, efficiency, and interpersonal skills in their work.
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