This doesn’t come as a surprise, as there’s currently an influx of AI-oriented tech startups in their thousands from all directions. The legal sphere in particular has benefited tremendously from these emerging technologies, with the US, UK, and EU leading the way.
Within the legal industry, there are five areas that AI sets out to address and solve. All five have to do with Natural Language Processing (NLP), a mixture of linguistics and computer science that allows AI to use written and spoken language (personal assistants like Alexa and Siri are arguably the most well-known examples of this). The five legal areas where NLP is currently involved are: