Note Making:

Balancing the Scales

STD-XI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a difference to how legal work is
done, but it isn’t the threat it is made out to be. AI is making
impressive progress and shaking up things all over the world today.
The assumption that advancements in technology and artificial
intelligence will render any profession defunct is just that, an
assumption and a false one. The only purpose this assumption
serves is creating mass panic and hostility towards embracing
technology that is meant to make our lives easier. Let us
understand what this means explicitly for the legal world. The ambit
of AI includes recognizing human speech and objects, making
decisions based on data and translating languages. Tasks that can
be defined as ‘search-and-find’ type can be performed by AI.
Introducing AI to this profession will primarily be for the purpose of
automating mundane, tedious tasks that require negligible human
intelligence. The kind of artificial intelligence that is employed by
industries in the current scene, when extended to law will enable
quicker services at a lower price. AI is meant to automate a number
of tasks that take up precious working hours lawyers could be
devoting to tasks that require discerning, empathy and trust-
qualities that cannot be replicated by even the most sophisticated
form of AI. The legal profession is one of the oldest professions in
the world. Thriving over a 1000 years; trust, judgment and diligence
are the pillars of this profession. The most important pillar is the
relationship of trust between a lawyer and clients, which can only be
achieved through human connection and interaction. While artificial
intelligence can be useful in scanning and organizing documents
pertaining to a case, it cannot perform higher-level tasks such as
sharp decision-making, relationship-building with valuable clients
and writing legal briefs, advising clients and appearing in court.
These are over and above the realm of computerization. The smooth
proceeding of a case is not possible without sound legal research.
While presenting cases, lawyers need to assimilate information in
the form of legal research by referring to a number of relevant
cases to find those that will favour their client’s motion. Lawyers are
even required to thoroughly know the opposing stand and
supporting legal arguments they can expect to prepare a watertight
defence strategy. AI, a software that operates on natural language,
enables electronic discovery of information relevant to a case,
contract reviews, and automation generation of legal documents. AI
utilizes big data analytics which enables visualization of case data. It
also allows for creation of a map of the cases which were cited in
previous cases and their resulting verdicts, as per the website
Towards Data Science. The probability of a positive outcome of a
case can be predicted by leveraging predictive analytic with machine
learning. This is advantageous to firms as they can determine the
return on investment in litigation and whether an agreement or
arbitration should be considered.

How to write note making

(a) Follow the following steps:

Step 1 : (i)Read the passage carefully.
(ii)Try to get the theme and subject of the passage. You may ask
yourself: “What is this passage about?” This will provide you the gist.
Step 2 : Read carefully. Identify main ideas and important supporting details.
Step 3 : Make notes of the main ideas under headings and add sub-points
under sub-headings.
Step 4 : Use proper layout/format – the indented type
Step 5 : Use recognisable abbreviations wherever possible- 4 compulsory.
Make the key for the 4 abbreviations.
Step 6: make a summary of 80 words which has a separate marking system.

Eg to making abbreviations.