In an exclusive interview with TimesTech, Ayub Sheikh, MD of FinTech & Innovation and COO of World Development Corporation, discusses how LawTech is transforming India’s legal landscape. The AI-powered platform streamlines legal processes, reduces research time, and addresses the case backlog, empowering legal professionals with efficient tools for quicker and more effective case resolutions.
Read the full interview here:
TimesTech: Can you elaborate on how LawTech is streamlining legal processes and empowering legal professionals in India?
Mr Ayub: LawTech significantly streamlines the legal process by providing seamless access to extensive legal databases, enabling the generation of unlimited drafts and past precedents with a single click. This reduces the research time required for lawyers, judges, and students, allowing legal professionals to focus more on case strategy and client interaction. Furthermore, this platform’s voice search and prompt hint features streamline their workflow, making legal processes quicker and more responsive to the needs of today’s practitioners.
TimesTech: In what ways does LawTech, as an AI-powered platform, have the potential to speed up proceedings in Indian courts?
Mr Ayub: LawTech addresses the time-consuming research phase that often delays court proceedings. It automates the creation of unlimited drafts and provides swift access to past judgements, precedents, the Central Act, the State Act, and the Indian Constitution. This reduces the case preparation time, which is essential given the backlog of over 4.7 crore cases across all levels as of 2022. This efficiency can lead to faster case resolutions and help clear the backlog of pending cases, thus speeding up proceedings in Indian courts.
TimesTech: Why do you believe India needs a solution like LawTech to transform its legal landscape, and what specific challenges does it address?
Mr Ayub: The Indian legal system is facing challenges such as extensive case backlogs and the overwhelming amount of time required for legal research and case preparation. LawTech addresses these issues by automating several time-consuming processes, allowing legal professionals to focus on case analysis and courtroom strategies. The tool’s ability to streamline document creation and case study review, transforms the legal landscape by enhancing efficiency and productivity.
TimesTech: Indian legal system is often described as overburdened. How can LawTech help alleviate this issue and improve efficiency?
Mr Ayub: LawTech significantly eases the overburdened legal system by streamlining the research and document preparation processes. It provides immediate access to authoritative sources on the Indian Constitution, State Acts, Central Acts, and past judgements, eliminating the need to sift through multiple websites. The AI-driven feature for quick reference to search history, as well as the platform’s repository of ready-to-use legal drafts and documents, further reduce case preparation time. These features collectively improve judicial efficiency, helping to address the substantial backlog of cases by enhancing the productivity of legal processes.
TimesTech: How does LawTech, as India’s first legal assistance tool, provide access to the Indian Constitution on the go, and why is this feature significant for legal professionals?
Mr Ayub: LawTech, India’s pioneering legal assistance tool, offers mobile and on-the-go access to the Indian Constitution, allowing legal professionals to instantly refer to crucial constitutional provisions and amendments anytime and anywhere. This feature is particularly valuable for lawyers and judges who need to ensure their legal arguments and decisions are well-grounded in the foundational law of the land, even when they are away from their offices.
TimesTech: Discuss how LawTech’s AI capabilities assist the Indian judiciary in arriving at judgements effortlessly, and how its vast database empowers lawyers to make winning arguments.
Mr Ayub: LawTech’s AI capabilities streamline the judgement process by providing judges with quick access to relevant past precedents and legal interpretations. The AI-driven database provides lawyers with a wealth of past cases and legal documents, enabling them to craft compelling arguments. This ready access to a broad spectrum of legal resources and precedents empowers the judiciary and legal practitioners to make informed, effective decisions and arguments, enhancing the quality and effectiveness of judicial outcomes.
