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“AI Guide for Litigators” — the latest in the "AI Guide" series — provides information and guidance for using AI tools in your litigation practices
Key takeaways
- AI is being applied across litigation workflows — AI is increasingly being used across all parts of the litigation practice involving not only work done within the firm, but also interactions with clients, opposing counsel, and courts.
- AI use in litigation primer— The guide provides concise, practical information for litigation lawyers and legal professionals on AI’s capabilities, risks, and appropriate use cases.
- AI may be moving into litigation decision-making — AI technology has the potential for additional uses in litigation, such as AI-assisted evidence authentication and jury selection, AI-driven arbitration, as well as AI judges and judicial decision-making.
AI tools can be applied at nearly every stage of litigation, from early case assessment to post-trial. The Thomson Reuters Institute and the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) have released the AI Guide for Litigators — a resource for litigation lawyers and legal professionals who want to explore and understand how AI impacts their practice. Whether litigators themselves are using AI or not, they are likely to at least be on the receiving end of AI-assisted work product from opposing counsel or clients.
Concise, practical overviews on AI in litigation
The new guide, the second paper in the AI Guide series, outlines how AI can significantly streamline litigation workflows and also serve as an effective starting point by providing information and analysis, organizing case materials, and supporting strategic decision-making.
The new AI Guide for Litigators covers fundamentals of AI use, including:
- AI application across the litigation workflow, with relevant examples
- Limitations and risk of AI use in litigation, including professional responsibilities
- Best practices for incorporating AI into litigation workflows
- Additional online resources
This new guide addresses the unique considerations that litigators face when adopting AI tools, from discovery and case strategy to ethical obligations and risk management. It explores what tasks are appropriate for AI to perform, AI’s limitations, and the role and importance of human insight and supervision.
This guide breaks down AI use in litigation into practical and familiar concepts that legal practitioners can use to foster understanding in their work.
The guide also draws on the expertise of a cross-section of practitioners, technologists, and thought leaders from across the legal industry.
"As a former litigator now working in legal innovation and technology, I've watched AI conversations stall the moment jargon enters the room," said Brendan W. Miller, J.D., Legal Innovation & Practice Transformation Advisor, former AmLaw 100 Partner, and one of the co-authors of the guide.
“The real work of change management lives or dies on translation between practitioners and technologists. I'm proud to have helped create this guide that breaks AI use in litigation into practical and familiar concepts legal practitioners can use to foster understanding in their work.”
As part of the AI Guideline series from Thomson Reuters Institute and ILTA, this new paper is a follow-up to AI Guide for Legal Professionals: A Foundational Overview, published in June, which provides a grounding on how lawyers and legal professionals can integrate AI into practice and better understand their responsibilities.
Additional guides will be published in coming months.
You can access the newly published AI Guide for Litigators here, or you can access it in flipbook format here
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