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Technology,
Law Practice

Jun. 30, 2021

Ascertaining if the ambitious no-code trend stacks up for lawyers

Law firms are being beseeched to consider using no-code capabilities, seemingly allowing lawyers and other legal professionals to develop computer programs without having to do so the old-fashioned way. Law practitioners and law firm partners must carefully assess no-code capabilities, doing so with their eyes open and fully aware of what works and what pitfalls might await them.

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 a kind of unrelenting obsession in the legal field about code.

Many pundits tout the idea that the law itself is ostensibly code (i.e., akin to the "code" or program coding that is devised for computers) and therefore we need to rethink the fundamental nature of how our laws are written and implemented. Succinctly stated, that's the law-as-code camp (see my March 11, 2021 column).

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