The future of legal practice in light of the multi-generational workforce dynamics and the re-emergence of multi-disciplinary practices (MDP's)

A. Introduction The legal profession currently is in a dynamic environment as it continues to evolve and law firms too are changing in response to internal pressures and external market forces. This evolution is not limited to dynamism in the law, but also, to the dynamism in its practitioners, with every very passing year witnessing an increase in the number practitioners in the market, and all of whom are the embodiment of a characteristic of the profession - diversity. As a result, we have practitioners from different backgrounds, education, sex, gender and importantly age.

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Artificial Intelligence & Block Chain Technologies in The Legal Industry: Challenges and Recommendations

There is no ‘one size fits all’ definition of Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter AI); different scholars define it differently. John Haugeland in his book, ‘Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985)’ defines it as "the exciting new effort to make computers think and to have machines with minds." Richard Bellman defines it in ‘An introduction to Artificial Intelligence (1978)’ to be "the automation of activities that we associate with human thinking, activities such as decision-making, problem solving, learning ..." "The study of mental faculties through the use of computational models" is the definition contained in ‘An introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ (1985)’ by Charniak and McDermott.

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