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Relativity Study on AI

Relativity commissioned a study last year on how lawyers are using artificial intelligence. Here are some key points that I found interesting:


  1. While 38% of law firm study participants used AI software, significantly more — 50 % — of government employees did.

  2. AI software was most often used by legal teams for document review.

  3. Two-thirds of study participants have implemented training programs to help employees learn how to use AI.

  4. Paralegals actually use AI more often than lawyers.

  5. AI is more often used as a way to automate low-level tasks, and with the goal of cutting costs - two times more frequently than as a means to enhance risk compliance or legal analysis.

  6. There was more concern about the loss of confidential data, than there was about misleading AI hallucinations.

  7. IT professionals tend to be concerned about the loss of confidential data that is input into large language models (LLMs).

  8. Law firms were twice as likely to use in-house proprietary models or software provided by vendors as they were to rely on publicly available AI software.



Sean O'Shea has more than 20 years of experience in the litigation support field with major law firms in New York and San Francisco.   He is an ACEDS Certified eDiscovery Specialist and a Relativity Certified Administrator.

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