We don’t handwrite letters or sit on park benches to confer with each other anymore, do we? We text-message each other, write e-mails, or use still other forms of instant communication. We may even send signals up to a satellite and then down to the person in the same room.
Welcome to the age of legal informatics. Legal informatics is a sort of fusion between artificial intelligence and the law. It presents the question “Will AI put information management, that far left and oft-neglected process described by the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, in the e-discovery spotlight?” In other words, can AI help prevent or alleviate our e-discovery burdens?
