AI promises to bring several benefits to the legal profession. For instance, AI has changed workflows by streamlining research, drafting, and due diligence while raising important questions around ethics, bias, and the future of legal education.
In the United States in 2023, a federal judge imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm after ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim. Such AI hallucinations and lapses on the part of lawyers to ensure an efficient role human-in-loop mechanism raise questions on whether AI tools at their current stage are fit for critical sectors like law.
AI use in law, though, is inevitable, as stated by the then Chief Justice of India, D.Y. Chandrachud, in April 2025. Students need to be taught to adapt to technology while preserving the core principles of legal education. They need to sharpen their critical assessment skills to verify AI-generated content, check legal citations, and ensure jurisdictional relevance.
In an attempt to make AI models safer for the Indian legal context, the research titled, ‘Incorporating Safety Through Accuracy and Fairness – Are LLMs Ready for the Indian Legal Domain?’, created a new way to check how fair and accurate Large language models (LLMs) are when used for Indian legal applications.
To understand where AI tools fall short and to what extent they can be used and what the future of AI is for law, The Hindu will host a live webinar titled ‘AI in law: Learning the techniques and guardrails’, on October 18, 2025. The panellists include: Balaraman Ravindran, Professor & Head, CeRAI & WSAI, IIT Madras; Gokul S. Krishnan, Senior Research Scientist, CeRAI, IIT Madras; Ashish Bharadwaj, Founding Dean, BITS Law School; and Vikas Mahendra, Partner, Keystone Partners, Advocates & Solicitors. The webinar will be moderated by M. Kalyanaraman, Head, Education Vertical, The Hindu.
Register now for free to ask questions and interact with the panellists. The three best questions will receive a free online subscription to The Hindu.
Panellists
Balaraman Ravindran, Professor & Head, CeRAI & WSAI, IIT Madras
Professor B. Ravindran heads the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), the Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (WSAI), the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) and the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) at IIT Madras.
He is involved with the Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI), where his work aims to promote the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies across various domains, as well as ensuring that they are transparent, fair, and aligned with societal values.
Gokul S. Krishnan, Senior Research Scientist, CeRAI, IIT Madras
Gokul S Krishnan is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Centre for Responsible AI, IIT Madras. Prior to this, he was a Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, USA; and a Research Scientist & Postdoctoral Fellow at Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras. His research interests include Healthcare Informatics, Machine/Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Web Semantics.
Ashish Bharadwaj, Founding Dean, BITS Law School
Professor Ashish Bharadwaj has previously served as the Dean of the Jindal School of Banking & Finance in O.P. Jindal Global University, Director of JGU’s Office of Academic Innovation and Online Learning, and Founding Director of the Jindal Initiative on Research on Intellectual Property and Competition (JIRICO). At Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), he contributed towards the design and delivery of the curriculum for B.A. LL.B. and B.B.A. LL.B. programmes. He curated and taught both core and advanced courses, including in ‘economic analysis of law’, ‘law & economics’, and ‘innovation policy and patents’.
Vikas Mahendra, Partner, Keystone Partners, Advocates & Solicitors
Vikas Mahendra is a Partner at Keystone Partners, Advocates & Solicitors, focusing on arbitration matters. He serves as Joint Secretary of the Arbitration Bar of India. He is also an Advisor to TERES and the Centre for Online Resolution of Disputes, and a Member of the ICC Commission.
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Published – October 13, 2025 02:37 pm IST
