There’s a lot of talk these days about what AI can do. Draft briefs. Review documents. Analyze contracts. Conduct research. Brainstorm ideas. Solve problems. And I’d be the first to say, AI can do a lot. But there’s something AI can’t give you. A mindset.
The determination to find a way to solve your client’s
I attended two keynotes at two different vendor conferences recently. The first was at the NetDocuments conference and was presented by CEO Josh Baxter and his team. Here is my write-up for Above the Law. The second was at the Clio conference and was done by its CEO, Jack Newton. Here is the write-up again
I attended a fascinating presentation while at NetDocuments Inspire conference. It asked the question of the impact of AI on the relationship between in-house lawyers and outside counsel. The issue whether these two groups will work together on AI adoption and use. Or whether they will go their own ways, which could proof disastrous for
As a former defense lawyer, I see lots of dynamics that tend to favor PI contingency fee firms, much of it centering around AI. Defense firms may have to start doing some things differently to keep up.
Here are my thoughts that appear in Above the Law.
I’ve always wondered about all those surveys that suggest how much lawyers are using AI. Especially when I ask how many in my presentation audiences are using AI and few many hands go up.
A Visier study makes me question AI use even more. 48% of those surveyed say they exaggerate AI use. It’s worth
One thing I learned over the years about litigating: front end loading and early case assessment were critical for success and strategy. The problem was that took time and clients often balked at paying for it. So when I saw that the recent AI Guide for Litigators from the Thomson Reuters Institute and ILTA focused
I was a litigator for many years, much of it spent handling mass torts with high stakes. I know how litigation works. I have seen lawyers turn what ought to be straightforward dispute into a bloody war that exponentially increases time and expense. And that was before AI.
I thought about this as I was
I keep hearing all this stuff about how AI is creating a generation of lawyers who can’t think, write, or research. That they have a sense of entitlement.
I have to admit I’m liitle suspicious since every generation was labled worse than the one before it. Yet we all somehow managed to survive.
And I
There is no doubt that hallucinations are real and lawyers need to check their cites. But I think sometimes we overreact to the hype and under react to some realities. So it was good to hear from five judges recently at RelFest who put some perspective into the mix. Coincidentialiy, it came at the same
I was at a managing partners conferance recently and every managing partner had the same complaint: they can’t find lawyers, and they can’t keep the ones they have.
t made me think of a recent 8am study that showed too many legal prefesionals are made miserable by admin work demands. It occured to me that
I’ll be honest. I didn’t know what to expect when I went to the Carlos Santana in concert last week. I mean, he’s pushing 80. Would he still play those glorious guitar riffs? Or would he mail it in? Well. Carlos don’t mail it in. I thought about this when my friend Carolyn Elefant mentioned
8am is one of my favorite legal tech vendors. it has been historicaly focused on the unsexy back-office stuff that small and mid-size firms really need. Cash flow. Billing. Getting paid. Not trying to be everything to everybody. It puts on a great conference. But in today’s a legal tech world where money is pouring
I’ve been concerned for some time that AI will end up making us all sound the same. That’s a problem for those of us in the persuasion busines. How can we make our arguments stand out in ways that will resonate? There is also a training issue as many of the tasks young lawyers cut
The Jesse Cole Keynote: Law Firms Aren’t Bananas. Or Are They?
You know me and celebrity keynote speakers at legal tech conferences. Sometimes they’re good. Sometimes they’re terrible. So I approached the keynote from Jesse Cole of Bananas baseball fame at the recent 8am Kaleidoscopeconference with a healthy degree of skepticism.
I must be
Every time I talk to older lawyers I hear how bad younger lawyers are. Don’t want to work. Can’t think. How much of this is just “the young generation is going to the dogs” notion and how much is true is hard to say. But it was refreshing to hear about a new program at
I never practiced criminal law. But my son-in-law is a public defender and I’ve learned how hard they work and toil with limited resources. So when I heard about how the New Jersey PD program was using AI to enable 1,300 public defenders across 66 offices search a state PD database of 3,000+ briefs using