While the AI world navigates the intellectual property minefield of employing ScarJo impersonators, lawyerly artificial intelligence fans continue to wonder how to integrate the rapidly advancing technology into the legal workflow. It can’t draw pictures without giving everyone Anne Boleyn hands — which even Anne Boleyn didn’t have — so how is it going to replace an associate?
And is that even a goal anyone should be pursuing?
But there are tasks that generative AI can help lawyers accomplish right now and firms aren’t reaping the benefits because of the disconnect between the 1s and 0s and the JDs.
Last month, KLoBot Inc. introduced a KLapper to deliver a no-code bot builder for firms can use to take advantage of generative AI without all the hassle.
KLapper lives right in the Azure, providing all the security firms expect, and employs a usage-based licensing model allowing firms to achieve significant savings.
But what does it actually do?
The KLapper dashboard shows all the bots that the user has at their disposal. These were all authored by KLoBot CEO Ragav Jagannathan, who showed me the creation process that was as intuitive as clicking on dropdown memos, uploading source documents, and inserting “intelligent connectors” to deliver results. All the plumbing remains behind-the-scenes, giving the user the power to craft the assistant they want to see.
Once built, these assistants can operate within a number of environments like “Microsoft SharePoint, Zoom, Teams, Web apps, Mobile apps and to over 15+ supported channels (with minimal or no IT support).” It can grab from Netdocs or iManage to learn on the firm’s data. If the user doesn’t want the bot going rogue and reaching out to the internet, turning that off is a simple click in the build process.
KLapper can assist with legal research and provide document summaries based on provided material, which is great and all, but the real power I saw in the bots we played with during our demo came in the form of streamlining the most mundane tasks. Tell it your second screen is broken and it can login and create a service ticket. Ask it to log the three hours you just billed and it goes into the time management system and puts it in. Just being connected to all the firm applications and able to be adapted to perform the skills you want delivers so much time. In a world where clients increasingly impose annoying, idiosyncratic rules upon the billing process, something that can take “hey, I need to log three hours to a meeting in the Anderson matter” and make that compliant is a huge time saver.
I’ve long suspected that law firms will spin their wheels on AI as they try to figure out the enterprise-sized hole they want to shove AI into when providing a safe and secure avenue for teams and the rank-and-file to build and test applications that fit their needs. KLapper empowers that sort of work.
Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.
