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Technology,
Law Practice

Jun. 16, 2021

Overzealous AI legal reasoning

Attorneys are expected to be zealous in the pursuit of justice for their clients. There is though a limit to this ardent goal, and sometimes overzealousness arises. In the future, there will be AI-based attorneys, for which zealousness ought to be expected, and surprisingly, overzealous can emerge too.

Lance Eliot

Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.

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There is something to be said for a lawyer that passionately pursues their cases and does so with vigor and fervor.

Indeed, our adversarial approach to justice makes a core assumption that the legal representation for a client will strenuously and abundantly strive zealously in support of their client's legal posture. It is a fundamental premise that there will be a forceful representation, going head-to-head with equally forceful re...

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