Exploring LLMs Applications in Law: A Literature Review on Current Legal NLP Approaches

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the legal landscape, with software tools now impacting various aspects of legal work. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and law holds potential to transform how legal professionals, including lawyers and judges, operate, resolve disputes, and retrieve case information to formulate their decisions. To identify the current state of the applications of Transformers (also known as Large Language Models or LLMs) in the legal domain, we analysed the existing literature from 2017 to 2023 through a database search and snowballing method. From 61 selected publications, we identified key application categories such as legal document analysis, case prediction,…