Lawyers Are Drowning in Data. What Can They Do About It? “The ‘Why Lawyers Are Adopting AI Faster Than You’ panel at this year’s Legalweek will examine at how firms can use AI to find the needle in some pretty big data haystacks.” Link.
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- Enough Hype Already: Inside Legal’s (Over?) Excitement with AI. “While many in the legal industry still over hype AI technology, some are beginning to separate fact from fiction. But the hype hasn’t been all bad—or good—for the legal market.” The post by Rhys Dipshan is here.
Covington’s Thomas Parisi posted:
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I love this “back of the envelope” answer to “Is it AI?” from Karen Hao and the MIT Technology Review.
Can AI Really Be Worth $15.4 TRILLION? as reported in McKinsey’s The executive’s AI playbook? Perhaps not. Foley’s Peter Vogel posted some caveats and red flags here.
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Here’s Bob Ambroji’s take on The Pew Charitable Trusts’ entry into A2J: A Potentially Major Lifeline For Low-Income Legal Tech And A2J. Bob discusses how Pew will attack several specific A2J obstacles. “Pew’s express commitment to increase access to free online legal tools and to develop new platforms to help people interact with the
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I’m a big fan of all things “Access to Justice” (A2J), so I was pleased to see 
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Check out this discussion on LinkedIn of Ron Friedmann’s post, Can Law Firms Gain a Sustainable Advantage with AI? Several luminaries weigh in. (I maintain that AI has reached, or will soon reach, the point of being a class of universally available resources, akin to utilities. At that point, AI will not inherently deliver
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This post from Ron Friedmann (Exploding Legal Surveys and Conferences) is a good way to start the week. Ron asserts that one of the common findings of these ever-proliferating surveys is “that large law firms and corporate law departments have already transformed, if not been disrupted.” He rightly concludes that this is “hogwash.”
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From Joseph Hage Aaronson in the UK: Artificial Intelligence Against Financial Crime.
Shearman & Sterling via Lexology: Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms in Cartel Cases: Risks in Potential Broad Theories of Harm.
Tel Aviv-based LawGeex, which has developed automated contract review technology…, is announcing that it has closed $12 million in new