Paper ID: 2303.05383

Making a Computational Attorney

Dell Zhang, Frank Schilder, Jack G. Conrad, Masoud Makrehchi, David von Rickenbach, Isabelle Moulinier

This "blue sky idea" paper outlines the opportunities and challenges in data mining and machine learning involving making a computational attorney -- an intelligent software agent capable of helping human lawyers with a wide range of complex high-level legal tasks such as drafting legal briefs for the prosecution or defense in court. In particular, we discuss what a ChatGPT-like Large Legal Language Model (L$^3$M) can and cannot do today, which will inspire researchers with promising short-term and long-term research objectives.

Submitted: Mar 7, 2023