LegalSifter wants to take the headache out of legal services, one AI-reviewed contract at a time

LegalSifter wants to take the headache out of legal services, one AI-reviewed contract at a time

LEGAL
Evergreen legal advice is to never sign a contract without reading it, but some legally binding documents are more complicated for a person with a JD than others. That's where McCandless-based LegalSifter comes in, with a service and software its leaders promise can take the pain out of understanding and signing contracts. “Contracts are the most important document in global commerce and they're just a universal pain for everyone,” the artificial intelligence-driven legal tech company's CEO, Kevin Miller, told Technical.ly. “They're a pain to read and negotiate. And they're a pain to keep track of, but natural language processing and machine learning, specifically, are uniquely suited to react to the novel language that befuddles us all on contracts.” LegalSifter users can upload their contracts, let the company's tools comb over…
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Robot Lawyer Threatened with Legal Action

Robot Lawyer Threatened with Legal Action

ATTORNEY
Image Credit: State Bar of California Plans to use an AI-powered legal tool named Robot Lawyer to defend a traffic ticket that has been dropped after state bars threatened legal action against its use. Joshua Browder, the CEO of DoNotPay and developer of Robot Lawyer, created the tool to help defendants fight cases without an attorney. The tool works by listening to court proceedings, analyzing discussions using AI language models (including ChatGPT and DaVinci), and then telling the defendant what to say. However, state bars have put a stop to its use. It's the job of the state bars to regulate attorneys to make sure that they fully understand the law. State bars argue that the use of the tool is against the law because the unauthorized practice of law…
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