In this talk Professor Hanna Roos, one of the world’s highest ranked dispute resolution lawyers with “ideas worth billions”, explains how AI can help lawyers perform like elite athletes and deliver better and faster resolutions so that clients, law firms and lawyers all benefit.Hanna describes how the legal profession has reached a crisis point. Disputes can take years to resolve, at a total cost of tens to hundreds of billions in legal fees a year globally. Many law firms charge by the hour, which fails to incentivise an early resolution of disputes. The billable hour also encourages the generation of large amounts of material. A manual analysis of such large data sets is inefficient. In all this, clients feel under-heard and over-charged. Lawyers, who are rewarded for working hard not smart, often burn out. What do we have? A dinosaur sector that is ripe for disruption and repair. AI can be the meteor that triggers that necessary evolution. Hanna studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford and Law at Cambridge. On the back of her Big Law pedigree, she has founded the law firm Aavagard (to bring about a new era of dispute resolution law) and Aavalynx (which develops AI for use in the dispute resolution sector). Hanna has featured in Vogue, ELLE and Harper’s Bazaar on account of her leadership in the law. In her free time Hanna explores the world’s frontiers by sailboat with her young family. They recently swam with sperm whales in the wild, following a sail across the Atlantic Ocean. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx