Coming for lawyers soon: digital disruption

After banking, retail, transport and hospitality, legal profession could be the next area of disruption, which law firms will have to embrace to survive it.

Published Mon, Aug 28, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Digitalisation

IN her keynote address at the recently held Future Lawyering Conference 2017, Senior Minister of State for Law and Finance Indranee Rajah quoted from the movie Terminator, likening the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) to the "rise of the machines". She joked that the millennials might not understand the 1980s reference.

Perhaps a more apt comparison, when assessing the threat that technology poses to the legal industry, is from the more current Game of Thrones. "Winter is coming" and the rise of AI is like the inexorable advance of the terrifying humanoid White Walkers.

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