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MAN VS MACHINE – EI TRUMPS AI

By Evolve Law 

Posted December 7, 2016

This is a guest post from Peter Rouse of Privitus.

Fragile, secretive and prone to irrational behaviours; against any measure by which machines are judged, humans fail to stack up when it comes to reliability and performance.  In our modern era, man as adjunct to machine has been a necessary compromise that is being gradually eroded as Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to capture more than imagination, and to command investment from leading law firms.  For lawyers, AI is the dependable Watson to their innately superior Holmes; and rumours of their imminent demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Lawyers serve as a bridge between the complexities of law and the vagaries of their instructing clients who are, without exception, human.  Until machines become sentient and acquire rights (and obligations) similar to those afforded to humans, decisions as to how to proceed in any legal matter will be determined by human factors including emotionality.  The importance of Emotional intelligence (EI) in business is well-established; however, it is AI that is getting all the attention, and the money.

EI is altogether harder for lawyers than AI as it is something that they have to develop within themselves.  It cannot be externalised, delegated or outsourced.  It requires skills that are not taught in Law Schools and a degree of self-awareness and empathy that lawyers are not renowned for.  EI is the stuff of relationships that attract, retain and refer business and talent.  EI, for those who have it, is the key to success for themselves and the firms they work in.

Relationships matter more now than ever before as they define not only clients’ service experience but also lawyers’ work satisfaction.  In a recent article, Joshua Graff, LinkedIn’s UK country manager, refers to research indicating that 84% of professionals are in some respect dissatisfied with their current roles.  The top 3 concerns for those seeking fulfilling roles are: salary (48%); relationships with colleagues (46%); and doing work that has a positive impact on others (38%).

The future will indeed look bleak for lawyers who see their expertise as centred in knowing law and regulation as the pace of AI accelerates and the cost comes down.  Smart lawyers will recognise that their future security and earning capacity rests in their ability to counsel their clients with sensitivity to their very human concerns and drives, providing something that robotic and largely scripted interactions will, I like to think, never quite achieve.

See more articles like this on the Evolve Law Blog at: http://evolvelawnow.com/blog/man-vs-machine-ei-trumps-ai/