On the morning of the 20th, after the lecture on 'Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech' held in the large conference room on the 6th floor of the National Digital Forensic Center (NDFC) at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul, invited lecturer Young-Ik Lim, representative lawyer of Intellicon Law Office, and Lee Won-Seok, acting Prosecutor General, along with other attendees, are taking a commemorative photo. Photo by Seok-Jin Choi
[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Seok-jin, Legal Affairs Specialist] On the 20th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office held a special lecture inviting legal tech experts, attended by numerous prosecution executives, prosecutors, and investigators including Acting Prosecutor General Lee Won-seok, showing great interest.
The Supreme Prosecutors' Office Scientific Investigation Department (Chief Prosecutor Jung Jin-woo) held the lecture at 10:30 a.m. in the large conference room on the 6th floor of the National Digital Forensic Center (NDFC) in Seocho-dong, Seoul. They invited Lim Young-ik, CEO and lead attorney of Intellicon Law Office, a legal tech expert, to give a lecture on the theme "Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech."
At the event, Acting Prosecutor General Lee, Shin Bong-su, Head of the Anti-Corruption and Strong Crime Department, Kim Sun-hwa, Head of the Trial and Litigation Department, and other senior officials of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, as well as prosecutors and investigators in charge of cyber investigations such as Andong-geon, Head of the Cyber Investigation Division, attended and listened attentively.
A Supreme Prosecutors' Office official stated, "The lecture was organized with the purpose of predicting the future of the legal profession and serving as an opportunity to think about and research new systems to provide 'judicial services for the people.'"
Before the lecture, Acting Prosecutor General Lee reportedly requested attorney Lim, the invited speaker, to "pour an ice bucket and strike with a wooden stick on the prosecution members’ minds, so they can feel the shock of evolving science and technology."
Attorney Lim, who gave the lecture, explained the development process of artificial intelligence systems from the era of A.I. Judge, which was the first predictive program based on accumulated human data, through A.I. Lawyer (artificial intelligence lawyer), to the stage of deep learning and document analysis systems that detect risks. He structured the lecture in the order of ▲Act 1: Predictive Machine ▲Act 2: Reasoning Machine ▲Act 3: Document Analysis and Reading Machine ▲Future, illustrating with real cases.
Meanwhile, as the developer of the AI contract automatic analyzer "Alpha-Law," he also expressed regret during the lecture about the stagnation of Korea's legal tech industry following the Lotoc incident.
He said, "I think the biggest contributors to promoting Korean legal tech are the Korean Bar Association and Lotoc. Japan also had a 1-2 year dispute but reached a consensus and resolved it, whereas Korea, the ICT powerhouse, has been fighting for seven years straight."
After the Constitutional Court ruled three provisions of the advertising regulations, created by the Korean Bar Association to discipline lawyers registered with Lotoc, unconstitutional, the Bar Association still maintains its position, claiming that discipline is possible under the remaining provisions not ruled unconstitutional and has requested additional disciplinary actions against Lotoc-registered lawyers.
Under the current Attorney-at-Law Act, if the Korean Bar Association's Lawyer Disciplinary Committee decides on a disciplinary action against a lawyer, the disciplined lawyer can file an objection with the Ministry of Justice's Lawyer Disciplinary Committee regarding that decision.
Previously, the Ministry of Justice firmly stated that Lotoc does not violate the current Attorney-at-Law Act, so disciplinary actions by the Korean Bar Association against Lotoc membership are likely to be canceled by the Ministry of Justice.
However, since the Korean Bar Association holds the position that discipline is possible for violations of advertising regulations regardless of whether Lotoc violates current laws, attention is focused on what decision the Ministry of Justice's Lawyer Disciplinary Committee will make after an actual disciplinary decision is issued.
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