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This sort of device is only applicable for very specific areas of "law". It may work for generalized law questions, retrieval of known legal principals, or even for electronic discovery (data mining) but once you get beyond law school there is a human element. I would like to see a machine come up with a novel means of describing a realworld legal situation. Ask him to determine whether John Stewart's use of media fr…
I'd love an answer to a question without a list of results.
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Its not meant to replace humans. Its meant to reduce the amount of tedious research work they need to do. If you reduce the vast tedium of researching stuff in Westlaw/LexisNexis, you can spend more time on your research memo. You can do more actual analysis work. Thus firms can reduce the number of associates they need on staff, because the associates won't be wasting time on wrangling research results. Yes, you sti…
Perhaps, if you are the 1% of lawyers who are associates at big law firms doing appellate-level research. They basically the same job as law students do in LRW class, pulling hundreds of quasi-relevant caselaw from a massive database. That side of things has, in recent years, been outsourced overseas. See companies like http://www.legalsupportglobal.com/
Honest question -- This is amazing! But why limit the search only to legal profession, why not apply Watson to all general questions and compete with Google? I'd love an answer to a question without a list of results.
I wonder if the creators where fans of 'Suits'
Does someone now where the stunning photo of a library was taken?