What Can Machines Do That Lawyers Can't? A.I. Applications for Law

When one thinks through important industry apps of AI, law or legal apps are not usually the first to jump to mind, but there’s certainly a need. Richard Downe, Ph.D. is Vice President of Data Science at Casetext, a startup working on improving search and natural language processing and democratizing legal information. In this episode, he speaks about the current bottlenecks for people trying to get more out of legal case documents, as well as some of the apps on which the Casetext team is working, to make these processes easier and to gain a strategic advantage in this industry.