World’s first robot lawyer hired by US firm Baker Hostetler

The world’s first artificial intelligence lawyer installed by Law Firm Baker Hostetler in the United State and named as ROSS

Purpose: To assist its various teams in legal research and Development

The Robot was named as ‘ROSS’ which is originally built by Watson, IBM’s cognitive computer

US-based law firm: Baker Hostetler

Capabilities of the ROSS:

• Involvement in the computing
• Natural language processing

Keynotes on ROSS:

• ROSS can able to clarify the research question asked by the Lawyers
• It has the capability to go through the law, gathers evidence, provides inferences and returns highly relevant and evidence based answers
• Monitors the law to notify users of new court decisions
• Continually learns from the lawyers who use it to bring back better results each time

Purpose:  

Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights team

Chief Information Officer Bob Craig statement:

He hoped that emerging technologies of cognitive computing and other such technologies could help to improve the services to the supported clients.

Related Details:

• ROSS Intelligence interested in research field at the University of Toronto in 2014
• The goal is building an artificial intelligence legal research assistant to allow lawyers to enhance and scale their abilities