The AI.Law Founder: Troy Doucet

Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋

This is the eighteenth episode of the 2024 season of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be interviewing key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do.

If you want to gain insights into how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the litigation process and the legal industry at large, you need to listen to this episode. Troy Doucet, founder of AI.law, is at the forefront of developing practical AI tools that empower lawyers to work more efficiently and effectively, ultimately increasing access to justice.

Join me as I interview Troy Doucet, the innovative founder of AI.Law, a groundbreaking tool that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to revolutionize litigation.

Troy shares his inspiring journey from practicing law to building a cutting-edge legal tech startup. He dives deep into the practical applications of AI in drafting legal documents, showcasing how his tool can significantly reduce the time and effort required for tasks like crafting complaints and responding to discovery requests.

Troy’s insights illuminate the tremendous potential of AI to streamline legal processes, increase efficiency, and ultimately improve access to justice. He also shares valuable advice for aspiring legal tech entrepreneurs, emphasizing the importance of solving real problems and combining legal expertise with technological prowess.

Whether you’re a practicing litigator looking to leverage AI in your work, a legal professional curious about the future of the industry, or an entrepreneur seeking inspiration, this episode is a must-watch. Troy’s stories, expertise, and passion for innovation will leave you with a fresh perspective on the transformative power of AI in the legal realm.

The Skinny

In this episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, host Tom Martin interviews Troy Doucet, the founder of AI.law, a practical tool that helps litigators be faster, more efficient and cost effective. AI.law leverages artificial intelligence to assist lawyers with drafting litigation documents, aiming to increase access to justice.

Key Takeaways:

• AI.law focuses on making the litigation process faster and more efficient by helping lawyers draft documents like complaints, answers, and discovery responses.

• The tool can draft a complete complaint in just a few minutes by analyzing input facts, identifying relevant claims and elements, and outputting a formatted document ready for filing.

• AI.law’s discovery response functionality can generate objections and substantive responses based on uploaded requests and client facts, dramatically reducing the time spent on this task.

• Troy believes current AI technology can handle 90-95% of a lawyer’s tasks, with the bottleneck being the technology stack built around the AI model.

• AI.law is seeing traction primarily with smaller law firms that are more open to technology and focused on efficiency.

• Troy advises legal tech entrepreneurs to solve real problems, combine brilliant legal and tech minds, and stay tenacious in their pursuits.

AI.law demonstrates the potential for AI to revolutionize the legal industry by streamlining time-consuming tasks and enabling lawyers to take on more cases. As adoption grows and larger firms begin to leverage these tools, the impact on efficiency, cost savings, and access to justice could be transformative. Troy’s journey as a legal tech entrepreneur highlights the importance of combining domain expertise, technological prowess, and tenacity to bring innovative solutions to market.

Notable Quotes:

• “AI.law helps lawyers draft Litigation documents. So the idea is, is that we make the process a lot faster for lawyers who are litigating cases to get through, at least the main drafting stages with the help of AI.” – Troy Doucet [00:01:00]

• “It could probably do 95%, 90, 95% of everything that, that I do as a lawyer. I don’t think it’s, I don’t think it can replicate like the top 1%, but I almost think the lag associated with it is more about the stack, the technology stack that we add to it.” – Troy Doucet [00:19:00]

• “I think it is a great equalizer. And then we get into access to justice and cost of services and, you know, the ability for a firm to do more work with less effort and make, you know, and ultimately make more money.” – Troy Doucet [00:22:00]

• “I’ll tell you, my firm, I think we filed the first completely AI drafted lawsuit in federal court a couple months ago And I’m pretty sure it’s, it’s one of the first, if not the first.” – Troy Doucet [00:25:00]

• “I’d say solve a problem versus look for a problem to solve. I think that You also need a legal tech, both the legal side of things to be really good as well as the tech side.” – Troy Doucet [00:44:00]