

Robots in Law
Book • 2016
Joanna Goodman’s Robots in Law examines early commercial applications of artificial intelligence in the legal sector and their potential to reshape legal workflows and service delivery.
Drawing on interviews, demos, and firsthand reporting, Goodman outlines the capabilities of early machine learning and NLP tools and how law firms and vendors were beginning to adopt them.
The book assesses organizational, cultural, and technical challenges to adoption and highlights the roles of legal engineers and knowledge managers in bridging law and technology.
Goodman places AI within the broader context of enterprise information management and predicts that automation and analytics would become integral to legal practice.
Published in 2016, the book served as one of the first mainstream accounts documenting legal AI’s emergence and implications for the profession.
Drawing on interviews, demos, and firsthand reporting, Goodman outlines the capabilities of early machine learning and NLP tools and how law firms and vendors were beginning to adopt them.
The book assesses organizational, cultural, and technical challenges to adoption and highlights the roles of legal engineers and knowledge managers in bridging law and technology.
Goodman places AI within the broader context of enterprise information management and predicts that automation and analytics would become integral to legal practice.
Published in 2016, the book served as one of the first mainstream accounts documenting legal AI’s emergence and implications for the profession.
Mentioned by
Mentioned in 0 episodes
Mentioned by ![undefined]()

as her 2016 book examining how AI was reshaping legal services and to explain her early coverage of legal AI.

Joanna Goodman

Joanna Goodman


