Technology,
Law Practice
Oct. 16, 2020
Artificial Intelligence might spur a three-tiered practice of law
Existing exhortations about allowing nonlawyers to practice law has created alternative visions about a possible two-tiered approach to justice. For those deeply interested in the two-tier possibilities, there is a need to reckon with an additional tier, surprisingly so, leading potentially to a three-tiered practice of law that relies on advances in artificial intelligence.
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
There is an ongoing and intense debate about whether nonlawyers might be permitted to practice law someday. Arguments are made that doing so would presumably increase access to justice and spur a justice-for-all aspiration, while fervent counterarguments are made that the public would be subjected to a lesser capacity of legal representation and consequently experience a palpably diminished version of justice.
If nonlawyers were wide...
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