"Although the challenge is not right now, you can already see how technology has evolved and how sophisticated databases or research mechanisms have became with the use of artificial intelligence", explains Burkhart Goebel at Hogan Lovells Madrid. "The medical sector has already started benefiting from those mechanisms so there is no reason why legal services will not be affected in particular in areas such as fact finding, legal precedent or templates which will be done by computers" says Goebel. See more at www.iberianlawyer.com

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