Lega

So much fun joining the UpLevel Ops team and the inimitable Whitney Stefko Dover for a fun and freewheeling look back on the crazy last year of #legal's #generativeAI journey. Was a fantastic conversation. If you haven't already, give it a listen! Lega #legaltech #legalinnovation

🚀 What an unforgettable #ILTACON2024! A huge thank you to everyone who stopped the Lega booth and connected with us—whether new faces or old friends, it was a pleasure. The conversations were insightful, and the connections invaluable. Excited to continue our discussions on #generativeai and explore the future together. ✨

Saturday morning's coffee-time reflection: my "PeakGeek" overview of the most interesting things I saw, heard, or learned this week. 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 1. I got an overview of what's new in Lega, a platform that helps law firms safely deploy AI models, including usage tracking, reporting, and compliance, and that enables firms to easily build AI apps. Particularly cool? 🦄 The Lega Lab allows you to pick and choose from 11 models! An imminent new release may offer hundreds to choose from. 🦄 Ask a question and compare responses from two different models in real time to see which one performs better. 🦄 When building, you have multiple starting point options including replicating a previous app to use it as a template for building another, AND importing a file from Microsoft's Azure studio so you can directly deploy what you've built there using Lega. Christian Lang Rob Saccone 2. I met a lot of founders this week, always fascinating. One of them said that as a lawyer: 🤖 "I was asked to work like a robot; instead I built one." 🤖 3. Sometimes it feels like things come in waves, and it's hard to explain why. I saw three interesting chronology solutions in the past week. There are a lot of new point solutions emerging in the litigation space that do very niche things. 4. Again and again, though, the new companies I've seen with the most potential in the past months share these interesting characteristics: 👨🎓 Founded by students, or young people just out of college 🙃 They might leverage #AI, but functionality is AI adjacency - what do organizations need in order to safely and ethically deploy AI? This is a HOT area with a lot of opportunity. Have a great weekend! #legaltech #legal #weekendupdate

So long #ILTACON, it was great while it lasted but alas, I’m heading back to Boston and back to work on Lega‘s new release. It is always great to catch up with so many friends and colleagues. It’s essentially a family reunion for us “veterans”. Even my (very non-legatech) better half looks forward to this event after so many years. Happy wife evidence attached 😉 Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth or took time to meet with the Lega team. We received tons of positive reactions and feedback, and we appreciate every bit. I’m very proud of our team and our work, and we’re excited to share our unique approach to balancing speed and safety while innovating with #genai with even more firms and creators. And there is still time to stop by and chat with Christian Lang and Gillian McTiernan at booth 815 today!

What a whirlwind in Nashville! 🌪🤠🎸  #ILTACON2024 was incredibly productive 🤓, outrageously fun 🥳, and thoroughly exhausting 😮💨.  I’ve returning home deeply inspired by the exciting ground being broken at the frontier of #legalinnovation. 🚀 I’ve never been more proud to be a part of the #legaltech ecosystem 👏👏, and I hope the work we’re doing at Lega can make a meaningful contribution to the transformation this community is leading. 🤝🤝 Thanks to all the friends, colleagues, customers, and prospects for the thoughtful conversations and silly laughs.  🙏🙏🙏 I can’t wait to keep the discussions going and see everyone again in person as soon as possible! Edward Sohn Noah Waisberg Amy Monaghan Nicole Bradick Alma Asay Nicola Shaver Jeroen Plink Ed Walters Joe Green Rebecca (Crosby) Yeargan Kat Freeman Michael Ross Iris Skornicki Toby Franklin Ilona Logvinova Kay Kim Sukesh Kamra Tim Follett Caroline Hill Arun Mathew Leigh Zeiser Ryan Alshak Dan O'Day Haley Altman Conan Hines Brad Blickstein Daniel Pryor Anita Campbell Maximilian Paterson Scott Mozarsky Zach Posner Ned Gannon Joe B. D. Casey Flaherty Ed Empamano Elliot White Richard Gordon Tania Djerrahian Kelly Harbour Ian Nelson

Saturday morning's coffee-time reflection: my "PeakGeek" overview of the most interesting things I saw, heard, or learned this week. 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 🔹 1. I got an overview of what's new in Lega, a platform that helps law firms safely deploy AI models, including usage tracking, reporting, and compliance, and that enables firms to easily build AI apps. Particularly cool? 🦄 The Lega Lab allows you to pick and choose from 11 models! An imminent new release may offer hundreds to choose from. 🦄 Ask a question and compare responses from two different models in real time to see which one performs better. 🦄 When building, you have multiple starting point options including replicating a previous app to use it as a template for building another, AND importing a file from Microsoft's Azure studio so you can directly deploy what you've built there using Lega. Christian Lang Rob Saccone 2. I met a lot of founders this week, always fascinating. One of them said that as a lawyer: 🤖 "I was asked to work like a robot; instead I built one." 🤖 3. Sometimes it feels like things come in waves, and it's hard to explain why. I saw three interesting chronology solutions in the past week. There are a lot of new point solutions emerging in the litigation space that do very niche things. 4. Again and again, though, the new companies I've seen with the most potential in the past months share these interesting characteristics: 👨🎓 Founded by students, or young people just out of college 🙃 They might leverage #AI, but functionality is AI adjacency - what do organizations need in order to safely and ethically deploy AI? This is a HOT area with a lot of opportunity. Have a great weekend! #legaltech #legal #weekendupdate

It's time for more #GenAI answers and less #GenAI hype. I’ve seen trends repeat themselves over my 25-year tenure in #legaltech. Over the last 18 months, I’ve seen customers and investors write big checks to "get in early” on AI, only to find themselves searching for problems to solve or reinventing wheels that have been turning for decades. From the start I believed in the transformative potential of AI, but felt the market needed more options than astronomically priced RAG-bots, basic chat wrappers, or legions of new Python developers. So, I dug deeper and searched for answers. After several years on the sidelines as an investor and advisor, I needed to get back in the game. Meeting Christian Lang and the team at Lega confirmed that other likeminded pros were building practical solutions, and it was an easy choice to join as CTO and start building together. We then set out to bring together "LLM Apps" and "LLM Ops" in a platform for business users, not just data scientists and coders, where firms can experiment and answer big questions before making big bets.  After months of heads-down, hands-on effort we're excited to preview the new Lega at #ILTACON in just over a week. Our thinking has evolved since Lega's launch a year ago: ✅ We don't fixate on use cases: we give you the tools to create and discover the use cases that work for you, and a growing catalog of curated templates and examples if you need inspiration. ✅ We're provider agnostic: we work with any model, any number of users or use cases, while standardizing access and monitoring across the board. ✅ We provide safety and security at scale by constantly monitoring for compliance with usage, security, and moderation policies that you can define. ✅ Just bring your own keys, your own data, and your own creativity If you're at ILTA and would like to hear more, stop by booth 815 and say hello to me, Christian, or Gillian. Or reach out directly any time. We’d love to chat! CC Haley Altman, Nicole Bradick, Edward Sohn

Visibility is critically important on your #generativeAI journey. You need to know what information is going where and to whom. Without the proper audit tools, you’re flying blind. Your (or your client’s) data could very well be flooding into areas it’s not supposed to be. Take control, and ensure you have the right guardrails in place. If you need help, come see Lega at #iltacon2024 at booth 815. #legaltech #legaltechnology #legalinnovation #governance #LLMs #largelanguagemodels

We're excited to be exhibiting at #iltacon2024! Come visit us and learn how Lega can safely empower your firm's #generativeai journey. #legaltech #legaltechnology #legalinnovation #largelanguagemodels #LLMs #governance

During our webinar sound check earlier, Christian Lang dived straight into all the use cases for Gen AI at law firms... and I was all, "hold on, hold on... I need to jot these down so I can pass them off as my own." Here's a snippet of what we will be discussing next Monday with Elizabeth Wilkinson, Conan Hines, Elliot White, and Christian. I have a pretty good feeling about this one. For those who haven't registered, here's the link: https://lnkd.in/eixB7nPd