One GenAI legal disruption that’s not talked much about is its potential to head off disputes and problems in advance. Elimination of disputes means less need for lawyers, particularly litigators. I have written about the potential for technology to do just this before. But GenAI and AI have the potential to advance preventive lawyering in
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Three Takeaways From NetDocuments’ Inspire 2024: GenAI, One Stop Services and BTW, We Need to Talk
The NetDocuments user conference, Inspire 2024, took place in Atlanta this week. NetDocuments is a sophisticated cloud-based document management system. It offers an end-to-end platform for document and email organization and management. NetDocuments has over 7,000 customers globally.
Three things stood out from the Conference.
- NetDocuments is positioning itself to be a player in
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Empowering Lawyer Leadership: K&L Gates and AltaClaro’s GenAI Supervisory Course for Partners. Yes, Partners.
AltaClaro, an innovative provider of interactive, experiential legal training (about which I have written before), recently announced the launch of a new course, Guiding Effective Use of GenAI: A Supervisory Course for Law Firm Partners.
The launch is noteworthy for several reasons. The course is unique in that it focuses not on…
Clio’s Legal Trends Report 2024: AI, Automation and the Death of the Billable Hour?
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One of the central themes of the recent Clio user conference held in Austin was the anticipated death of the billable hour. Jack Newton talked a lot about this in his keynote, as did other Clio executives in presentations and their talks with me.
The idea is based on one of the more startling…
Neurotechnology in Litigation: The End of the Beginning or the Beginning of the End?
This week I’m attending the annual extravaganza put on by Clio, the cloud based practice management provider. ClioCon never disappoints. In addition to offering sessions devoted to its products, it also provides presentations that make you think about broader issues that impact the profession. One of these session was the Tuesday Keynote by Nita…
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Apple: Is Your IT Team Holding You Back?
I am thrilled to post this insightful article from my good friend, Tara Cheever. Tara is a co-founder of LitSoftware. LitSoftware suite of products, including TrialPad and TranscriptPad, among others, revolutionized how litigators practice their cases. Thanks Tara!
A cultural clash has been brewing within law firms for years. On one side are…
Access to Justice: Perfection Can’t Be the Enemy of Progress
As many of you know, I regularly participate in Bob Ambrogi’s LegalTech Week journalist roundtable on Fridays. This past week, we actually did the roundtable live and in person at Relativity Fest. I raised two articles/developments during the roundtable. The first one had to do with the settlement by DoNotPay with the FTC,…
Relativity Fest 2024: E-Discovery Providers Like Relativity Pave The Way for Legal Embrace of GenAI
I’m attending Relativity Fest this week in Chicago. Relativity Fest is put on by the e-discovery software provider Relativity. Relativity is one of the largest discovery software providers. Relativity Fest is its extravagant user conference. According to Relativity, there are a record 2000 attendees at this year’s show, the 15th annual one.
I attended…
Unlocking Potential: Can AI and Gen AI Can Transform Insurance Defense and Carrier Relationships?
I recently chatted with Noah Waisberg, co-founder and CEO of Zuva, an M&A contract analysis firm. Noah was kind enough to give me a copy of the book he and Dr. Alexander Hudek recently authored AI For Lawyers, which is an excellent read.
In his book, Waisberg and Hudek talks about something…
A New Day For Litigation: AI Tools Are Redefining the Future
I recently attended LexSummit2024, the Filevine user conference. Filevine is a case management software provider. I also got a demo of vLex’s enhancement of its AI tool…
Ryan Anderson Lays Out Future of Filevine
The Filevine user conference, LEXSummit2024 kicked off recently in Salt Lake City with a keynote presentation by its CEO, Ryan Anderson. Anderson offered up his view of where the company in specific, and perhaps legal tech, in general, should be going.
Anderson called to mind Steve Jobs and the iPhone introduction in 2007 as…
The Top Ten Things I Learned at ILTACon This Year
I recently returned from the annual Conference of the International Legal Technology Association or, as it is usually referred to, ILTA. Over 4000 registrants from 32 countries. Over 200 exhibitors. Almost 350 speakers. To say this is a really big show would be an understatement. It’s certainly one of the biggest if not the biggest…
Gen AI’s Second Wave: The Rise of Consolidation in Legal Tech
The ILTA Conference I am attending this week is great for seeing where the legal tech industry is going. This is true especially for Big Law and large corporations. One trend is clear: we are witnessing the second wave of Gen AI in this legal market segment. In a word: its consolidation.…
Beyond the Hype: Opening ILTA Keynote Reminds Lawyers and Legal Professionals of Limits and Risks of Data Analytics and Gen AI
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Mind the Gap: the Disconnect Between Surveys and Anecdotal Evidence On Gen AI Use By Lawyers
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Mark Twain
I was told one time that there are firms that want to innovate, and there are firms that want to say they innovate. Meaning, of course, that some firms just want to get on the bandwagon and appear to follow trends for…
Law Firm Management: It’s Not All (Or Only) About Tech
I was recently at a conference of elite trial lawyers where I presented with Dr. Maura Grossman and was on a panel session where we demonstrated how Generative AI could be practically used. But perhaps the most enlightening time was spent outside of the conference in networking conversations which is, of course, typical.
One of…