Source: Legal Futures by Nick Hillborne
A renewed artificial intelligence (AI) partnership between personal injury firm Fletchers and Liverpool University could see lawyers provided with summaries to help them understand files.
Dan Taylor, head of integration at Fletchers, said a tool which produced summaries could also be “massively beneficial” when the firm was buying other law firms or books of work.
Fletchers signed a knowledge transfer partnership with Liverpool University in 2016, using £225,000 in public funding from Innovate UK.
This time the law firm will itself sponsor two computer science PhD students to carry out AI research over a period of four years.
They will build on the Structured Information Decision Support Systems (SIDSS) developed by the firm for its clinical negligence department, which help staff decide whether cases should be investigated and taken on…
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