Will lawyers be replaced by AI? A legal popularization digital person appears
To create a market-oriented, legal and international business environment, what changes can digital technology bring? Lawyers representing "highly intelligent humans" are also worried about artificial intelligence replacing themselves? At the "Smart Rule of Law Wins in Hongqiao" legal technology exchange and exhibition event and the main event of the 2024 Changning Rule of Law Culture Festival held on May 10, with the unveiling of the "Greater Hongqiao Rule of Law Living Room", located in Changning District, especially in the Hongqiao Development Zone Enterprises and professional legal institutions have a more open communication platform.
The newly established "Greater Hongqiao Legal Conference Room" is located in the Great Hongqiao Business Service Center on Loushanguan Road. It provides on-site digital business services such as inquiry and processing, as well as diversified legal services such as foreign-related notarization and legal consultation. It also focuses on Changning's "33 "Key industry characteristics, in-depth cross-sector exchanges between law firms, enterprises, and universities will promote the further upgrading of the legal function of the Greater Hongqiao Business Service Center.
In recent years, Changning District has actively implemented the decision-making and deployment of "smart rule of law", focusing on the new track of digital transformation, and has successively issued "Implementation Opinions on Strengthening Legal Protection of Digital Transformation" and launched the "Top Ten Legal Technology Actions". The newly established "Changning District Legal Technology Application and Development Alliance" at the meeting will focus on regional industrial characteristics and build a bridge for legal technology application services. The first batch of signed members of the alliance include more than 10 companies including iFlytek, Zhenling Technology, Shanghai Junyue Law Firm, Shanghai Jiuzhou Fengze Law Firm, Shanghai Haihua Yongtai Law Firm, and Beijing Weiheng Law Firm. and 20 law firms, as well as Changning District Justice Bureau, East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law and other units.
The alliance immediately released the "Legal Service Guidelines for Hot Issues in Changning Digital Industry", focusing on hot issues in enterprise development such as data capitalization, data compliance, data business cooperation, and intellectual property protection paths, and proposed legal solutions. The city's first regional digital law popularization ambassador, "Ningning AI Law", also made its debut, and will provide inclusive, convenient and efficient digital legal services to enterprises and citizens in government service scenarios such as the "Greater Hongqiao Legal Reception Hall".
"Lawyers often communicate with each other, and everyone has gradually reached a consensus on whether the profession will be replaced by artificial intelligence, that is, the value of lawyers' work should be measured based on the complexity and duplication of work." In the "Greater Hongqiao Rule of Law Conference Room" "At the first legal technology exchange and sharing meeting held after its establishment, Wu Liyang, head of Docket Intelligent Technology Shanghai Company, mentioned that based on the application potential of artificial intelligence technology in lawyers' work, lawyer work with low possibility of substitution includes the work of major legal issues. Professional judgment, legal research, transaction structure design, contract review and risk analysis, etc. Jobs with a higher likelihood of substitution include interviews and telephone consultations, archiving of information, excerpts of due diligence facts, legal translation, document and contract drafting, etc.
The reporter noticed that the degree of substitutability of these jobs is directly related to the legal workers’ working years, and is also closely related to the social resources involved. To this end, since this year, Changning District has continued to integrate various legal service resources in the region and established a four-party linkage working mechanism led by the government, cross-border cooperation between legal service institutions and digital enterprises, and theoretical support and talent support provided by universities and colleges.
At the meeting that day, Changning initiated the establishment of a legal guarantee community for optimizing the business environment, and the first batch of members signed a contract together. They will focus on solutions to cross-regional, cross-department, and cross-field problems in legal business and focus on the construction of the Hongqiao International Central Legal District. Actively promote a higher level of institutional openness in terms of strengthening administrative law enforcement supervision, giving full play to judicial safeguard functions, and optimizing dispute resolution mechanisms.
The reporter learned from the meeting that during this year’s Changning Rule of Law Culture Festival, Changning District will also launch ten series of activities focusing on “the rule of law to benefit the people’s livelihood”, that is, to create ten strollable, readable, and warm “rule of law culture research tour routes” for the grassroots. ", carry out the "Shanghai Xiaoxin Enters the Campus" law popularization campaign for campuses, launches a series of projects such as "Cultural and Tourism Intellectual Property Law Popularization Education" for enterprises, comprehensively promotes the "Legal Bookshelf" project for government agencies and units, and creates a citizen festival that ordinary people can participate in at any time. .
Leaders of Changning District said that Changning will continue to aim at optimizing the market-oriented, rule-by-law, and international first-class business environment and actively promote the integrated development of the application of legal technology and the rule of law culture. The next step will be to further promote the integration of the rule of law city, the rule of law government, and the rule of law society. construction, and promote high-quality regional development with high-efficiency rule of law.