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Al and technology in family law

Date:5 APR 2018
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Marcus Dearle
Family Asset Protection | BCLP Private Wealth

Could family law benefit from artificial intelligence (Al)? It has already proved its worth in huge-scale disclosure, but could it, say, draft a pre-nup?

In establishing Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner's (BCLP) new Family Asset Protection Group in London and Hong Kong, the question of embracing new technology and innovation was an important factor in our business planning. The idea of offering family law through Lawyers on Demand (LOD) as a separate entity, was part of that strategy.

As my colleague Oliver Glynn-Jones has said before, BCLP is a strong advocate for the use of emerging technologies, including AI, to improve the quality and efficiency of legal work and it has won awards for its pioneering technologies, such as the real estate data extraction robot.

Read the full article here.