Barrister Daragh Troy, who specialises in data protection, said there would always be limits in what AI would be able to produce. Photograph: Barry Cronin/The Irish Times.In a recent case in the United States, a law firm submitted a legal brief written by the predictive text generator ChatGPT, which cited a number of previous court rulings. The only problem was the citations were from rulings that did not exist, with a New York judge sanctioning the lawyers involved.
For Michael Doran, a senior executive with legal consultants Johnson Hana, the technology will likely mean big changes for trainee solicitors or law graduates starting their careers. The tech had cut down on time spent checking a draft contract and could raise potential red flags for a legal team to investigate further. “We use it for elements of discovery and large scale contract review, where we have the ability to process large volumes of documents,” he said.“I don’t think anyone is really lagging behind, potentially maybe you know the small mom and pop law shop because there is a cost involved in introducing it,” he said.
Daragh Troy, a barrister who specialises in data protection, said there would always be limits in what AI would be able to produce. “Do you want a computer to defend you, or do you want to rely on a human with expertise?,” he said.
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