August, 2015

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News You Can Use: A Robot Paralegal?

Advocate's Studio

The future is now! Dentons, LLP, the multinational firm boasting the largest number of lawyers in the world, apparently needs more of them — of the electro-mechanical sort. Dentons is financially backing a group of students from the University of Toronto who, as a class project, created an artificial intelligence to perform legal research. Code-named Ross, the AI uses IBM’s Jeopardy -nailing Watson to scour massive amounts of case law and legal docs in seconds to produce answers to l