NLS Class of 2003 Webinar On Artificial Intelligence: Spotlight On Sylvester C. Udemezue
In an online article titled ChatGPT: How AI is shaping the future of Law practice (Nelson & Simek, 2023), ChatGPT-3.5 was reported to have ranked in the bottom 10% of scores when it took the (USA) uniform Bar exam. However, ChatGPT-4 ranked in the top 10% of scores when it took the same exam soon after its release a mere few months later. (Register here)
With Generative AIs (Gen AIs) able to perform several of the functions that lawyers perform, such as give some form of legal advice, prepare briefs, draft some legal documents, and research, many are wondering whether AI could, sometime in the future, replace lawyers.
In most jurisdictions across the world, lawyers need to sit for and pass Bar exams before being licensed to practice law.
With the above preamble in mind, we unveil to you Sylvester C. Udemezue (popularly called Udems), one of the three panelists that would be speaking at the NLS Class of 2003 webinar titled Artificial Intelligence: Benefits and Opportunities for lawyers.
Udems was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. He worked in the Law Firms of Eze Dimude, Eze & Co. (Enugu), Akin Oladimeji & Co (Osogbo); Onyemaechi Adigo & Co (Ibadan); and Bode Ayorinde & Co (Ibadan), before he joined the Nigerian Law School in 2007, as a Lecturer. He was immediately posted to the Lagos Campus where he remained until 2019, when he was transferred to the Yenagoa Campus in Bayelsa State.
Udems has written over 30 scholarly papers (learned papers), and over 200 published legal commentaries (popular articles) on prevailing national legal issues.
Given Udems’ strong scholarly credentials, there is no doubt he would not shy away from expressing his opinions on whether AI can replace lawyers anytime soon or at all, in the practice of law and legal research.
In exploring the benefits and opportunities of AI to lawyers, Ud
ems and the other panelists will also examine the possible implications of GPT-4 ranking in the top 10% of scores in a Bar exam, and whether there is a possibility that it could be licensed to practice law in the foreseeable future.
With Gen AIs so prone to hallucinations and fabrications of precedents, what are the ways lawyers can make use of AI to produce the best outcomes?
You will no doubt not want to miss the webinar and the insights it promises to give.
Register to attend and save the date of the NLS Class of 2003 maiden webinar on 9th March 2024 at 10 am for the answers to these questions and more.
