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42 Lessons Learned in 42 Years: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the DataVerse
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Legal Operations in the age of AI and Data
Globe Law and business
'Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data' is your essential guidebook through the tech jungle of legal innovation. Edited by Olga V. Mack, Humira Noorestani, and MbaMemme Onwudiwe, this tome is a treasure trove, merging AI's sharp edge with the rich tapestry of legal ops via the snazzy LegalOps 2.0 approach.
Crafted by the brightest minds in legal tech, each chapter dives deep into the 12 core domains of CLOC, all jazzed up with a techy spin. It’s like having VIP access to the…'Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data' is your essential guidebook through the tech jungle of legal innovation. Edited by Olga V. Mack, Humira Noorestani, and MbaMemme Onwudiwe, this tome is a treasure trove, merging AI's sharp edge with the rich tapestry of legal ops via the snazzy LegalOps 2.0 approach.
Crafted by the brightest minds in legal tech, each chapter dives deep into the 12 core domains of CLOC, all jazzed up with a techy spin. It’s like having VIP access to the AI-enhanced magic behind legal wizardry.
From automating drab legal tasks, leveraging the latest AI gizmos, to storytelling with data for juries and morphing your biz team into legal tech buffs, this book is your GPS in the AI revolution impacting legal ops.
Aimed at legal vets and tech novices alike, it’s not just about geeking out on AI; it’s about wielding it with smarts and ethics to slick your legal operations, in the office or the courtroom.
With insights from the corridors of legal tech, in-house magic, law firm strategies, and academic wisdom, 'Legal Operations in the Age of AI and Data' is your all-you-need guide to mastering AI in legal with hands-on, practical wisdom.Other authorsSee publication -
Threading the Needle: 10 Things Legal Needs to Know About Threads
Legal Tech News
A comprehensive overview of everything Lawyers need to know about the new social media platform, Threads.
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Handbook of Legal tech
Globe Law and business
Technology is everywhere. Its presence is undeniable. The legal industry, steeped in history and tradition, is not immune to the changes brought about by technological advancement. No facet of the legal industry can escape or ignore the increasingly important role of technology in the practice of law. Yet, technology can overwhelm, confuse, or downright intimidate many.
By reading and using the insights shared in this title, learn how to reconcile technology's inescapable presence with…Technology is everywhere. Its presence is undeniable. The legal industry, steeped in history and tradition, is not immune to the changes brought about by technological advancement. No facet of the legal industry can escape or ignore the increasingly important role of technology in the practice of law. Yet, technology can overwhelm, confuse, or downright intimidate many.
By reading and using the insights shared in this title, learn how to reconcile technology's inescapable presence with the fear of the unknown it often brings about. Edited by Colin S. Levy, a well-known legal tech influencer and advocate, Handbook of Legal Tech provides guidance from many of the leading figures within the legal tech space on the different parts of law practice being enhanced and improved by technology. Each chapter covers a key area of legal tech, including automation, contract management, blockchain, use of artificial intelligence, and legal analytics, and contains first-hand insights into the development and adoption of legal technology and actionable data around best uses for different types of legal technologies. Legal ethics and the future of legal tech are also explored.
This book is aimed at lawyers both in-house and in private practice globally who have an interest in legal tech and wish to learn more about how it will impact and enhance their work. In this age driven by data and technology, ignoring technology is at your definitive peril. Get up to speed with this engaging and enlightening book on the intersection of the legal industry and the world of technology.Other authorsSee publication -
Trust but Verify: Legal Lessons From ChatGPT's First Sanctions
Legal Tech News
A debrief of the Avianca case and what lessons about using GenAI Lawyers ought to take from it.
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Poll Result: There Should Be No Pause in Training Advanced AI Models
Legal Tech News
Expert contributor- discussions of whether calls to "pause" GAI make sense.
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Ask the experts: Legal Week- Dos and Don'ts
Legal Tech News
Experts discuss how to get the most out of LegalWeek 2023.
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11 Ways ChatGPT Is the Ultimate eDiscovery Wingman
Legal Tech News
11 Ways ChatGPT Is the Ultimate eDiscovery Wingman - ways legal can use GAI in eDiscovery
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https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2023/01/30/why-human-centered-ai-is-the-future-of-legal-the-future-is-more-ironman-than-terminator-and-that-is-a-good-thing/
Legal Tech News
Discussion of Augmented intelligence and HCAI in legal.
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The Robot Lawyers are Here: Now What
Legal Tech News
Discussion of the impact of GAI and DONOTPAY trying to have a chatbot perform as a lawyer in a traffic citation matter.
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LegalTech's Predcations for eDiscovery 2023
Legal Tech News
Predictions from industry leaders in Legal Tech for the year to come.
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AI-Powered E-Discovery is Turning Computer Vision into an Art Form
Legal Tech News
Much in the way that machine learning has an objective to make computers “think” like a human, technology in the category of “computer vision” is aimed at making computers “see” and interpret like a human. In today's e-discovery, that centers image recognition and categorization.
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Emojis Still Stumping eDiscovery Providers
LegalTech News
Quoted- Discussion of Emoji-driven challenges for eDiscovery software.
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2021 State of the Industry Report!: eDiscovery Trends
eDiscovery Today
State of the eDiscovery industry with thought leader insights.
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Legal Tech’s Predictions for Legal Technology Innovation in 2021
Legal Tech News
Attorneys and legal technologists see 2021 pushing the trends brought on by remote work even further, with AI and analytics continuing to grab attention. Here's what they're watching out for in the new year.
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Legal Tech's Predictions for E-Discovery in 2021
Legaltech News
No in-person review? No problem. Lawyers and legal technologists make their predictions on how the move to remote work, the proliferation of collaboration platforms, and more will affect e-discovery in 2021.
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Legal Tech's Predictions for E-Discovery in 2021
Legaltech News
No in-person review? No problem. Lawyers and legal technologists make their predictions on how the move to remote work, the proliferation of collaboration platforms, and more will affect e-discovery in 2021.
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What Does the Zoom Boom Mean for Ediscovery?
Corporate Counsel
An aspect of this shift to remote work that has been less discussed is the impact remote working has had on tools and methods of communication—and what that means for discovery of digital evidence.
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Is Legal AI Making Lawyers Dumb? Quite The Contrary
Legal Week
"The value a lawyer brings to their clients is in their legal knowledge, strategy and guidance - not the manual review of documents," says the chief innovation officer of legal technology provider Disco. Legal AI liberates attorneys from the menial, enabling them to devote more time to developing trial strategy and substantive legal acumen. AI makes attorneys smarter in ways that better suit them for a future practice of law. Learning and employing AI (and, broadly, legal technology) is a…
"The value a lawyer brings to their clients is in their legal knowledge, strategy and guidance - not the manual review of documents," says the chief innovation officer of legal technology provider Disco. Legal AI liberates attorneys from the menial, enabling them to devote more time to developing trial strategy and substantive legal acumen. AI makes attorneys smarter in ways that better suit them for a future practice of law. Learning and employing AI (and, broadly, legal technology) is a skillset that is crucial for lawyers of all experience levels to best serve their clients and keep up with innovative and tech-driven legal teams.
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Law Firms Are Not Tech Companies—And It’s Time They Stopped Trying To Be
Legaltech News
The last few months have highlighted the unprecedented risks law firms are facing today due to dated and on-premise solutions that lack security, privacy and remote functionality. The crisis has also uncovered that there are two kinds of law firms: Those that are cloud-based and those that resist.
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Coping With A Pandemic: DISCO's Cat Casey
Law 360
Cat Casey
As society continues to adapt to COVID-19, Law360 is sharing reactions from around the business and legal community.
Today's perspective comes from Austin, Texas-based Catherine "Cat" Casey, chief innovation officer at e-discovery software provider DISCO Inc.
What challenges has the pandemic created in your specific area of work?
The pandemic dramatically accelerated the need to support forensics, e-discovery and the practice of law in a virtual way…
Cat Casey
As society continues to adapt to COVID-19, Law360 is sharing reactions from around the business and legal community.
Today's perspective comes from Austin, Texas-based Catherine "Cat" Casey, chief innovation officer at e-discovery software provider DISCO Inc.
What challenges has the pandemic created in your specific area of work?
The pandemic dramatically accelerated the need to support forensics, e-discovery and the practice of law in a virtual way. From cloud-based data collection to remote document reviews and leveraging a robust virtualized data ecosystem to keep client data secure and accessible, the new normal dramatically impacted how many legal teams conduct e-discovery and even the practice of law more broadly.
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Drowning in Data? Tips to quit boiling the ocean to find key evidence in the digital age
BC Paralegal Press
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echnology is the transformative thread weaving through
all aspects of modern life, changing how people
learn, work, and communicate. Today, people operate
professionally and personally in a digital society, leaving
a vast computer-generated footprint in their wake. This
digital roadmap offers a wealth of information and potential
evidence for the savvy legal professional who knows where to
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Mythbuster: Innovation is Not For Me
ACC Observer
What does this mean in the practice of law? In any organization under pressure to do more with less, it means adapting and adopting tools and processes to more efficiently address low-value tasks and reduce time to evidence and insights.
There are many misconceptions about what it takes to create a culture of innovation and who is suited to undertake it. We are going to tackle the preconceived notions to empower you to embark on your journey toward change and, ultimately, transformation.What does this mean in the practice of law? In any organization under pressure to do more with less, it means adapting and adopting tools and processes to more efficiently address low-value tasks and reduce time to evidence and insights.
There are many misconceptions about what it takes to create a culture of innovation and who is suited to undertake it. We are going to tackle the preconceived notions to empower you to embark on your journey toward change and, ultimately, transformation. -
AI & Machine Learning as Your Force Multiplier
EDRM
What does the military concept of force multiplier look like applied to legal practice? In the most basic terms, doing more with less. There are three major ways that technology is helping ediscovery professionals gain access to evidence with less human effort required, make better-informed decisions, and reduce time to insight.
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Uncovering Evidence in a Digital Age
NMDLA Defense News
Technology impacts all aspects of modern life, transforming how people learn, work, and communicate. People today operate professionally and personally in a digital society, leaving a vast computer generated footprint in their wake. Understanding these new potential sources of evidence is critically important to zealously advocate for clients.
Much in the way that email transformed the practice of law, new short-form and/or collaborative means of communication are dramatically impacting…Technology impacts all aspects of modern life, transforming how people learn, work, and communicate. People today operate professionally and personally in a digital society, leaving a vast computer generated footprint in their wake. Understanding these new potential sources of evidence is critically important to zealously advocate for clients.
Much in the way that email transformed the practice of law, new short-form and/or collaborative means of communication are dramatically impacting how practitioners identify and uncover key evidence. Understanding where to look, how to extract insight, and the legal or ethical considerations with each new source of evidence pose new challenges for practitioners.
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Becoming Ironman
Inside BIG DATA
If you believe the hype, we are on the verge of AI-powered robo-laywers replacing legal practitioners completely. In reality, we are far from that level of legal AI sophistication. The augmented intelligence models deployed today in the field of law are more focused on amplifying human decision making than replacing it.
Should legal practitioners be afraid… be very afraid?
Simply answered, no. In fact, this legal technology revolution offers massive opportunities for…If you believe the hype, we are on the verge of AI-powered robo-laywers replacing legal practitioners completely. In reality, we are far from that level of legal AI sophistication. The augmented intelligence models deployed today in the field of law are more focused on amplifying human decision making than replacing it.
Should legal practitioners be afraid… be very afraid?
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AI & Ethics- the Roundtable and the Rule of Law
ACEDS
Rapid technological innovation―and in particular, the adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI and specifically machine learning or ML), has fundamentally changed both daily life and business practices across a wide spectrum of industries. While the practice of law was arguably later to the party than most (although part of that may be legal practitioners’ reluctance to trust the validity of advertising and marketing campaigns) there is no denying that AI is now firmly entrenched in…
Rapid technological innovation―and in particular, the adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI and specifically machine learning or ML), has fundamentally changed both daily life and business practices across a wide spectrum of industries. While the practice of law was arguably later to the party than most (although part of that may be legal practitioners’ reluctance to trust the validity of advertising and marketing campaigns) there is no denying that AI is now firmly entrenched in legal practice
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From Big Law to Legal Tech, DISCO's New CINO Sees E-Discovery Renaissance
Legaltech News
These days, individuals and businesses are leaving a larger digital footprint through the growing use of emails, apps and internet-connected devices. In response, e-discovery vendors are entering a new frontier of leveraging advanced technology and expanding their solutions beyond just e-discovery, said Catherine “Cat” Casey, DISCO’s first chief innovation officer.
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E-Discovery Techniques to Investigate and Mitigate Insider Threats
New York Law Journal
When it comes to investigations into the theft of IP, the use of e-discovery tools as part of the investigation itself may significantly reduce the time required to uncover or rule out suspected bad behavior, while helping companies control the cost of what appears to be an increasingly common event.
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E-discovery special report: In darker waters
The Lawyer
Cat Casey, vice-president, Exigent: Given the tenuous legal structure left after the invalidation of Safe Harbour, counsel facing cross-border discovery and investigation projects involving EU data must seek guidance on data collection, processing, hosting, review and access approaches to mitigate data privacy violation. E-discovery providers bringing EU data to the US must evaluate the 28 regulatory requirements and face increased risk should a privacy violation occur.
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Legal Management: Thrive in the New Landscape of the E-Discovery Marketplace
Association of Legal Administrators
Big data and technology leveraged solutions, from early case assessment and advanced culling and categorizing tools to predictive coding and fully automated review, have shifted the industry to e-discovery 2.0. Law firm and in-house counsel alike need to understand the impact this transition has on their practices and the efficiencies and cost savings that they present.
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Leveraging Low Cost Resources to Develop eDiscovery Knowledge Workers
Inside Counsel
This new breed of knowledge worker does not fall from the sky; rather, workers should develop organically within the corporation and the e-discovery services ranks. Knowledge worker development does not have to be a budget buster. Companies can tap a wide array of low- to no-cost resources to begin this evolution within their e-discovery teams.
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The Role of Project Managers in eDiscovery
Inside Counsel
Building a sophisticated team to work with technology-enhanced review tools, manage complex automated collection tools and act as special operations consultants to outside counsel defines one aspect of the today’s e-discovery knowledge worker movement. Another facet of the knowledge worker profile focuses on the project managers and consultants who can draw from universally accepted processes that create document workflow and planning.
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Evolution of the Knowledge Worker
InsideCounsel
The first of a 3-part series for InsideCounsel magazine covering the evolution of eDiscovery professionals alongside the emergence of technology-leveraged review.
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E-Discovery Special Report: The Rising Tide of Nonlinear Review
The National Law Journal
The article analyzes the increasingly complex face of e-Discovery in a technology leveraged world. Specific focus is on leveraging technological advancements to minimize the cost and maximize the accuracy of human analysis required for large data reviews.
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New York State Bar
Affiliate, AI task Force Member
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Member of the New York State Bar Association and member of the AI Task force. The Task Force on Artificial Intelligence will examine the legal, social, and ethical impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the legal profession. The Task Force will review AI-based software, generative AI technology, and other machine learning tools that may enhance the profession and that pose risks for individual attorneys dealing with new, unfamiliar technology, and courts concerned about the integrity of the judicial process. Also, the Task Force will explore the positive and negative implications of AI use by the legal community and the general public, including effects on access to justice, legal regulations, and privacy preservation. As it engages in its work, the Task Force will consult and ensure alignment of approaches, where appropriate, with other entities within the Association, including but not limited to the Committee on Technology and the Legal Profession, the Task Force on Emerging Digital Finance and Currency, the Working Group on Facial Recognition Technology and Access to Legal Representation, and relevant sections. Lastly, the Task Force will develop policies for bar association adoption and suggest legislation to govern effective and responsible AI use.
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ACEDS
Advisory Counsel
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Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS)
Board of Directors for DC Chapter
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Women in eDiscovery
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Women's Bar Association
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American Bar Association
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Antitrust Section
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EDRM
Advisor
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IEEE
Advisory Counsel
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Sedona Conference
Member
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Sedona Conference
Member, WG11
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