Gen AI Cut Lawyers’ Drafting Time in Half, UK’s Ashurst Says

Ashurst lawyers using generative AI were able to write the first draft of briefs in about half the time it took them on their own, the UK-based law firm found in an in-depth trial of several artificial intelligence tools.

The Silver Circle firm set out to create its own framework for testing legal tech tools because of “a lack of anyone else having done that,” Tara Waters, a London-based partner and the firm’s chief digital officer, said. It gives the firm a basis for evaluating AI tools going forward, she added.

Law firms have been grappling for more than a ...