The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Advocacy
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https://doi.org/10.46282/bpf.2025.11Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, legal profession, legal technology, regulationAbstract
The article examines the modern use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in legal practice, focusing on both their benefits and risks. It analyzes the areas in which AI is already applied, including legal research, drafting of legal documents, due diligence, summarization of case files, litigation outcome prediction and administrative support for law firms, while also highlighting practical examples from international and domestic contexts. The article also addresses the risks associated with the use of AI, in particular issues of confidentiality and data protection, reliability of outputs and the need to preserve the human factor in legal services. It further presents the results of a survey conducted among Slovak lawyers, which explored the extent to which they use AI tools in practice and identified the most frequently used applications. The aim of the article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the ways in which AI can be used in legal practice, to analyze available tools and to assess the risks that the use of AI poses for the performance of the legal profession and the preservation of its core values.
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