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"Start playing around with AI."
- Bastiaan Ryckaert, General Counsel at Catisa
For Bastiaan, the best way to prepare for a sizeable company-wide implementation of legal AI is to start using it. Many tools are available today to explore and get acquainted with. At the same time, he sees this as an opportunity to educate his teams about the threats of using AI.
"AI is not a magic wand."
- Marine Lorge, Head of Legal Operations at Ageas
Marine explains how Ageas will progressively roll out legal AI. From a change management perspective, a step-by-step approach is best for their lawyers to build up use cases. There is no swift one-size-fits-all solution.
"Garbage in, garbage out."
- Bastiaan Ryckaert, General Counsel at Catisa
Bastiaan emphasizes the importance of data sources in feeding AI. He recommends using legal AI tools with reliable legal databases over Co-Pilot or ChatGPT. First, a profound analysis of your company's available data is necessary.
"You need a bottom-up and a top-down approach to implement legal AI."
- Rémy bonnaffé, CTIO & Co‑Lead Legal Operations Lab
Rémy believes that too much focus on a bottom-up approach—legal counsels playing around with legal AI to find use cases—limits efficiency gains. The paradigm shift will come from both setting up top-down systems and building use cases bottom-up.
"The role of legal in-house counsel won't fudamentally change."
- Bastiaan Ryckaert, General Counsel at Catisa
Legal counsels will continue protecting the business's interests in a technical context, and Bastiaan expects that to stay the same. The legal counsel jobs won't disappear, but efficiency will change and massively impact how work will be done.
