Don’t miss this excellent compendium by
For more than two years I’ve been writing that systems such as Wordsmith (from Automated Insights) can do a very
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Ken Grady doesn’t post often enough, but when he does it’s always worth the wait. Don’t miss this thought provoking piece. The Boring Law Firm: The model is dead, may it rest in peace. “Large law firm partners like owning their businesses and running them how they please. Right now, it pleases them to
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This is the biggest news from last week’s LegalWeek in NYC: Legaltech19: New global matter standard to provide “common language” for law firms and corporate counsel. “The Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance is building matter coding that includes area of law and process codes, which it says will foster innovation and
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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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This promises to be quite a week in legal AI. Today’s post is the prelude to what I expect to be a deluge of news from ILTACON 2018
. I’ll be traveling all day Tuesday, so getting a slow start on my ILTA coverage.
- Early news from ILTACON via Artificial Lawyer: “Thomson Reuters has
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From Jim Baker via Lawfare: Artificial Intelligence – A Counterintelligence Perspective: Part I. “…AI and the entire technological ecosystem in which it functions are highly valuable to private-sector organizations and nation-states. That means that nations will try to identify, steal, and corrupt or otherwise counteract the AI and related assets of others, and will
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A couple of days ago I reported on EY’s acquisition of Riverview Law. Since then it has been very widely reported (e.g., here) and the subject of many tweets, blog posts (e.g., here) and articles. Many see it as a portent of things to come, some agreeing with “Cornelius Grossmann, Ernst & Young’s
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READ THIS from Helen Gunnarsson of the ABA via Bloomberg Law, reporting on the panel, “Ethics Issues in Lawyers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence,” that took place May 31 at the 44th ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility in Louisville: Billable Hour ‘Makes No Sense’ in an AI World. “The panelists provided examples of how the
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- Check out Sally Gonzalez’ provocative essay about the relationship between AI & KM in law firms, and the likely changes AI will cause.
- ContractSifter by LegalSifter looks like an affordable way to get into AI-based contract review. (I have not done the demo.)
- Smart Assistants. Google’s Assistant is clearly the most useful today, but