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Successful success of AI-utilized legal seminar
Contract writing, written summary, etc.
Introduction to various defense methods
On the 22nd, lawyers are taking a class on how to use generative AI in their work in a classroom in Jamsil-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul. <Reporter Yoo Ji-in>
On Saturday the 22nd, a lecture hall in Jamsil-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul was crowded with lawyers. They focused on their monitors without distraction during the four-hour lecture. The reason why lawyers, who are known to be busy, gave up their weekend afternoons and gathered together was to learn how to innovate legal affairs using AI technology.
The seminar on this day was held by e4B, an education company, with the theme of ‘How to use generative AI to improve legal work skills.’ About 30 lawyers and experts from various regions including the metropolitan area, Busan, and Ulsan came. The ages ranged from first-year associate attorneys to senior attorneys in their 60s. People in positions adjacent to the legal profession, such as the head of a customs office and a representative of a tax corporation, also attended.
Lawyer Jo Woo-seong (55, 23rd class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute), who was the lecturer, explained that the reason he became interested in AI was "due to my impatient yet lazy personality." The characteristics of AI, which quickly provides information and accurately processes repetitive tasks, suited his needs. At the same time, he said, "By meeting AI, we quickly process the work requested by the client, and review a wider range of data during the remaining time to provide more diverse solutions than the client requested."
The practice of entering commands directly into the AI continued. Attorney Cho divided the legal situation into △contract writing and review △legal advice △civil litigation △criminal litigation △self-development and research, and introduced commands that can be used in each task. The AI program on this day was Claude 3.0.
He first had AI write a criminal complaint. When he entered the command 'Please write a complaint based on this content' along with the content of the consultation with the client, the AI systematically wrote a response in a matter of seconds. Next, when the command “Explain all imaginable cases in which the other party can defend against the above complaint” is entered into the input window, the AI analyzes each possibility in detail and provides the defense logic that the other party can present. Various arguments were proposed.
In addition, various ways to utilize AI in legal affairs were introduced, such as △writing opinions, △complaints and written summaries, △patent infringement cases, △writing non-disclosure agreements, △reviewing contracts, and △English translation. A total of 40 cases were handled that day, and the number of prompts reached 200.
Attorney Cho emphasized 'detailed questions as if talking to a person' as a way to effectively use AI. For example, rather than simply commanding 'Please review the draft of the NDA (non-disclosure agreement),' you can get a more elaborate answer by teaching the AI a virtual character with commands such as 'You are an NDA expert' and then requesting a task. there is. You can also adjust the level of your answer through expressions such as 'conservatively' and 'aggressively.'
The lawyers who listened to the lecture seemed to have gained confidence that they could use AI to increase work efficiency. A partner lawyer at a mid-sized law firm said, “There are concerns that the legal market will shrink in the AI era, but if AI is used well, it will increase the work efficiency of lawyers and improve the quality of legal services.” A senior lawyer said, “In the future, we will be divided into lawyers who know how to handle AI and those who do not,” and added, “There is a feeling of pressure to be better than AI.”
The representative attorney of a law firm in the Ulsan area pointed out some limitations. He said, “AI may be able to take on a significant portion of advisory, but it will be difficult to replace tasks that require direct intervention by lawyers, such as criminal cases.”