12 Conclusion

Now that you know how GenAI works and the concerns about its outputs, you may have wondered about whether it should be used at all for legal advice and information.

As noted in section 10, GenAI has many advantages such as speed, clarity, its widespread availability, and cost. Using LLMs in the legal context can therefore offer many benefits to individuals and companies. The crucial thing is understanding how they work and being able to make an informed choice about their use.

The remaining courses in this series provide more information and guidance on how to use GenAI within a legal context, including in the fourth course, Use cases for Generative AI, the different ways LLMs are being used within the free advice sector and the legal profession.

We end this course with some advice from Harry Clark, a lawyer with Mishcon de Reya solicitors.

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HARRY CLARK

And then finally, I'd also just recognise that generative AI is a contentious issue, particularly in my field if you're working with a lot of creatives and artists and musicians, etcetera.

So I know that talking about this topic can sometimes be a bit divisive and people are incredibly bullish or incredibly bearish in terms of what it's going to do.

My main take away on that point is that even if you yourself don't buy it, you don't think it's going to be any kind of value in this long term.

If you don't like it for whatever ethical or moral reason, or you don't use it, you should still try to understand it because it is the hot topic that everyone is talking about, and especially as a lawyer, including your clients.

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The second course in the series, Skills and strategies for using Generative AI, explains the skills and strategies to use GenAI effectively in a legal context. Alternatively, you may want to consider one of the other courses which form part of this training.