Chris Schwegmann is creative with how artificial intelligence is used in law.
In the Boutique law firm, based in Dallas, Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann, he sometimes asked the AI to channel the chief judge of the Supreme Court John Roberts or Sherlock Holmes.
Schwegmann said that after downloading the opposing lawyers’ memories, he will ask the legal technology platform Harvey Assuming the role of a legal spirit like Roberts to see how the chief judge would think of a particular problem.
Other times, he will turn to a fictitious character like Holmes, unlocking a different state of mind.
“Harvey, Chatgpt … They know who these people are and can tackle the problem of this state of mind,” he said. “Once we, as a lawyer, we are outside these ways, when we think more creatively with other branches of science, literature, history, mythology, which sometimes generates some of the most interesting ideas which can then be posed, using an appropriate legal judgment, in a framework that works to solve a legal problem.”
This is only an example of how small businesses put AI to work above their weight, and new data show that there is an opportunity for much more implementation in the future.
Only 24% of the owners of the recent survey on small businesses and technologies of the National Federation of Independent Businesses said they used AI, including Chatgpt, Canva and Copilot, in a way.
In particular, 98% of those who use it indicated that the AI has so far had no impact on the number of employees in their company.
During his 50 -lawyer litigation company, Schwegmann said that AI resolves work in days that would sometimes take weeks, and said technology did not replace business workers.
He released associated lawyers to do “growls”, he said, and also means that more higher level partners have time to supervise younger lawyers because everyone has more time.
The NFIB survey revealed that the use of AI varied according to the size of the small business. For companies with employees with a figure, adoption was 21%. In companies with fifty or more workers, the implementation of AI was almost half of all respondents.
“The data clearly shows that adoption for the smallest companies is considerably late behind their broader competitors. … With a little attention to all the stakeholders concerned, a more equal playground is possible,” said the NFIB report.
For future use of AI, 63% of all small employers questioned said that the use of technology in their industry in the next five years will be important to some extent; 12% said it would be extremely important and 15% said it would not be important at all.
Some of the most common uses of the survey concerned communications, marketing and advertising, predictive analysis and customer service.
“We always need the independent legal judgment of our associated lawyers and our partners – he has not replaced them, that simply increases their reflection,” said Schwegmann. “It makes them more creative and frees their time to do what lawyers do best, which is a strategic thought and a creative problem of problems.”
NFIB data echoes a recent Reimagine Main Street survey, a Public Private Strategies Institute in partnership with Paypal.
Reimagine interviewed nearly 1,000 small businesses with annual income between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 and also found that a quarter had already started to integrate AI into daily work flows.
Schwegmann said that in his business, AI even helped the rules of the game.
“One of the things Harvey lets us do is revise, understand and integrate and respond much faster than before the use of this type of AI tools,” he said. “A party no longer has an advantage because it can put you to death.”
