The 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup raised this sport to a new level in one fell swoop. This could have been the key event for a development leap. Women\u2019s football triggered off an unprecedented degree of acceptance worldwide and a wave of enthusiasm. After all the years in which women\u2019s football was of secondary importance on the pitch, it now definitely appears to have emerged from the shadow of men\u2019s football and to claim its own raison d\u2019\u00eatre. Precisely what factors caused this decisive spark still remains to be analysed.<\/p>\n
And in the legal market? In the last few years, the issue of #LegalTech has been raised with varying degrees of intensity. What emerged were conferences, an exotic subject for devotees, an enthusiastic start-up scene, and certain lawyers even felt a calling to become software developers. Yet LegalTech does not quite seem to have hit the ground running. So far, digital change does not appear to have triggered a wave of change in any grand style, and we are still far away from any #disruptive effect. However, this might have changed with the introduction of ChatGPT. This has let a genie out of the bottle which has put the spotlight on all industries and professional groups in all countries, simultaneously and in no time at all \u2013 including the legal service providers. There is now a new dynamism, and in-depth discussions are now being conducted on a broad basis. Thus @Goldman Sachs, for example, predicts that 44% of legal work could be automated with artificial intelligence (AI) (here<\/a>). AI could become a #game changer in the legal market.<\/p>\n In this context, it is worth looking at the notion of #emergence. The German dictionary Duden defines emergence as, on the one hand, the \u201coccurrence of new, unpredictable qualities from the interaction between several factors\u201d. We can now puzzle over why precisely this Women\u2019s World Cup or only ChatGPT received this sudden surge of attention by the masses although both of them had already existed before. It is a fact that men now have to entertain this idea of more #competition in football because soon twice the number of teams will vie for the same sponsors. In the same way, the quality of legal services will be improved thanks to AI. According to Duden, however, the term \u201cemergence\u201d also has a further connotation, which deserves more attention in connection with AI, in particular: the term also describes the situation \u201cwhereby higher levels of being arise from lower ones through newly materialising qualities\u201d. This will be attested to AI at the latest when it develops awareness, i.e. a state of being which up to then had only been reserved for human beings (#singularity). This stage is still up in the air today, yet both definitions have in common that they do not only lead to a slightly optimised result but have the potential for genuine #transformation.<\/p>\n