Artificial Intelligence & Generative AI
The impact for legal departments
The potential of AI disruption to the working practices of all businesses has slowly been capturing the imagination over the last decade. With the emergence of large language models which underpin Generative AI, we have now seen the long-awaited acceleration towards actual transformative change.
This transformation brings with it a demand for new advisory skills tailored for this industrial revolution. This is combined with the unprecedented event of legal departments being at the forefront of the transformation impacting all professional services. AI is now changing every aspect of legal department needs – and where there is transformative change there is opportunity, and risk.
At Deloitte, we are excited by the new opportunities Generative AI offers, but also alert to its challenges: ethical; practical; and legal. Our specialists across Deloitte are engaged with peers in law and industry in learning more about this technology and helping our clients to harness its potential.
The potential of AI disruption to the working practices of all businesses has slowly been capturing the imagination over the last decade.
Legal operations
How does my legal team implement and use AI?
- Digital transformation: supporting you in implementing AI tools as part of your legal department’s digital transformation strategy.
- Operational efficiency: assessing the impact of Generative AI on your legal department’s strategy and future operating model.
- GenAI readiness: undertaking a GenAI readiness assessment to develop a technology and skills roadmap for your legal department.
- Next generation contracting: assessing the implications of GenAI for your contracting and CLM strategy.
- Proof of Concept: collaborating on GenAI proofs of concept for identified use cases.
Legal advisory services
How does my legal team support my business on AI issues?
- Contracts: ensuring the agreements you enter into involving AI use, sale or purchase comply with current or future legal and regulatory requirements and are optimised for this new commercial, operational and risk model.
- Data privacy and confidentiality: advising on and helping remove the data privacy compliance challenges that can impact on AI use.
- Regulatory change: navigating the rapidly evolving AI regulatory environment globally.
- People & employment: managing legal risk related to discrimination, potential labour displacement and workforce augmentation driven by AI.
- IP protection and infringement: managing the complex and changing IP issues around AI content and use.
- Litigation risk: supporting on what can be highly intricate claims that can arise due to the output of the AI and its use of large data sets.
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