First International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA 2019) Collocated with Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019) Jack G. Conrad Jeremy Pickens Thomson Reuters OpenText Center for AI & Cognitive Computing Central Research 610 Opperman Drive 275 Frank Tompa Drive St. Paul MN 55123 Waterloo ON NL2 0A1 USA Canada jack.g.conrad@tr.com jpickens@opentext.com INTRODUCTION This workshop provided a platform for examining Over the past decade, increased use of machine questions surrounding “AI as human augmentation” learning and other artificial intelligence technologies for legal tasks (a.k.a. Intelligent Assistance or IA), has significantly increased legal professionals’ particularly those related to legal practitioners’ abilities to efficiently access, process, and analyze interaction with digital information, including e- digital information. AI breakthroughs continue to discovery. The focus of the workshop will be on improve everything from advanced search to better understanding the interaction between human information extraction and visualization to data and AI capabilities. The primary audience for the summarization, classification, and review. At the workshop will include working attorneys, legal same time, concerns over transparency and the researchers, computer science researchers, and AI potential limitations of fully automated approaches to providers in the legal industry. problems in the legal space have led to an upsurge of Open questions remain about if/when human interest in methods that incorporate human interaction is necessary to produce more effective intelligence –- the so-called "human-in- the-loop" results, if/when the human or AI should take the approach to AI. The debate over using AI as a initiative in the collaboration (i.e., whether IA or AI replacement for humans, as opposed to an should dominate), and if/when an increased augmentation of human abilities, otherwise known as interpretability and explainability of AI models is IA or Intelligent Assistance, is over half a century old, necessary for acceptable and successful human-AI but currently the pendulum is swinging back toward collaboration in the legal domain. The ability of the augmentation or IA perspective. However, not all systems to analyze and identify exploitable patterns of human-AI collaborative effort is guaranteed to be human interaction and assessment in tasks like EDD fruitful. Research into the nature, degree, and (Electronic Data Discovery, or technology-aided efficiency of the human contribution to various discovery) is a significant area of inquiry as well. applications is needed to ensure that the efforts and Empirical comparisons between pure AI versus IA or resources are deployed effectively. human-augmented AI – favorable or unfavorable – in the form of user studies or simulations, are encouraged. Proposals on how best to evaluate In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop various methods of human augmentation are also on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal welcome, as are analyses of the ethical implications of Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA adopting AI as replacement versus AI as 2019), held in conjunction with ICAIL 2019. June 17, augmentation in legal applications. 2019. Montreal, QC, Canada. Copyright © 2019 for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Published at http://ceur-ws.org.