Relativity commissioned a study last year on how lawyers are using artificial intelligence. Here are some key points that I found interesting:
- While 38% of law firm study participants used AI software, significantly more — 50 % — of government employees did.
- AI software was most often used by legal teams for document review.
- Two-thirds of study participants have implemented training programs to help employees learn how to use AI.
- Paralegals actually use AI more often than lawyers.
- AI is more often used as a way to automate low-level tasks, and with the goal of cutting costs - two times more frequently than as a means to enhance risk compliance or legal analysis.
- There was more concern about the loss of confidential data, than there was about misleading AI hallucinations.
- IT professionals tend to be concerned about the loss of confidential data that is input into large language models (LLMs).
- Law firms were twice as likely to use in-house proprietary models or software provided by vendors as they were to rely on publicly available AI software.