Costs lawyers will still have work to do in an AI-dominated world – but they must be willing to retrain and adapt to take advantage of the opportunities available.
That was the message from High Court judge Mrs Justice Smith in a speech to the Association of Costs Lawyers conference today.
Smith said the daily lives of costs lawyers will be ‘transformed’ by technology advances, with tasks such as assessing and transcribing data being exactly the type of work which can be done by artificial intelligence.
‘Cost management over the course of litigation would appear to be obviously suited to this new technology,’ said Smith.
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