Legal departments are working to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, however its implementation has challenges such as managing large amounts of data, getting someone to operate it, and even knowing what to use it for, experts say.

Shabbi Khan, partner at Foley & Lardner in Boston, said a lot of companies are paying high dollar to have data scientists do very specific jobs when it comes to creating and using artificial intelligence and machine learning. He said the type of pay that larger companies are paying to data scientists dissuades them from creating their own companies and “stifles innovation.”