Summary
Ask a trained lawyer what an
"LLM" is, and what first will come to mind may be a
"Master of Laws"; ask a tech-savvy teenager what an
"LLM" is, and they most probably will answer "large
language model". The former may not be a prerequisite to
becoming a qualified lawyer, but knowledge of the latter likely
will be crucial for legal practitioners in the coming years.
LLMs / Generative AI are on the
rise. OpenAI ChatGPT. Microsoft Copilot. Anthropic Claude. Meta AI
Llama. Perplexity. Google Gemini. xAI Grok. Quora Poe.
DeepSeek.
And bespoke legal AI tools, of
course, also are on the rise. Harvey. Thomson Reuters CoCounsel.
LexisNexis Lexis+ AI. Just to name a few.
It is timely that the Chartered
Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb) has launched the Ciarb Guideline on the Use of AI in Arbitration
(2025) (the "Ciarb AI Guideline").
Issued by the leading arbitration certification organisation in the
world, the Ciarb AI Guideline provides welcome guidance
