Kevin Walker’s Post

It was so fun speaking with Dr. Megan Ma about some of the hottest topics in legal AI on the Centari Change Agents podcast. We covered everything from AI agents to hallucination and accuracy, to the evolution of the legal profession and how students and new lawyers can set themselves up for success. Thanks Megan for sharing your fascinating perspective on these topics!

As a longtime reader of Artificial Lawyer, I was thrilled to speak with the publication about Centari's origin story and our team's shared vision for deal intelligence. Thanks Richard Tromans for the opportunity to share our story with your audience.

Welcome to the Centari team, Naomi!

Wrapping up a great week in San Francisco. Thanks Richard Tromans, Artificial Lawyer and Cosmonauts for a stellar Legal Innovators California conference. It was an honor to share Deal Intelligence by Centari in the startup showcase and to host a dinner with some of the greatest minds in the industry. We connected over our favorite cities, travel misadventures, and of course, how we see AI evolving in the coming years and decades. Thanks for a memorable evening Dr. Megan Ma, David Wang, Marlene Gebauer, John Scrudato, Ilona Logvinova, Jeannine Zito, Rowena Rix, Richard Tromans, Alan Murphy, Samantha Sheehan, Daniel Himmel, Kathleen Killin, Ryan Daniels.

Today, we're lifting the curtain on Deal Intelligence by Centari (and a new website to go with it!). The key ingredient for high-performance legal AI is high-quality data. Deal Intelligence by Centari is the product of 14+ months of engineering and applied legal research to transform some of the most complex documents in the world into hundreds of structured deal points. As we are already seeing with customers, this represents a step change in how law firms will mobilize their data at scale across M&A, finance, investment management, real estate, and the additional practice areas that we will support soon. To every attorney who has spent countless non-billable hours filling out deal sheets wondering, "When will AI be able to do this for me?", this is for you. Bryan Gilbert Davis and I recently presented a live demo at the South Park Commons Demo Faire in NYC. Sharing the full video here. Thanks to the SPC team for a great event and the opportunity to share our vision for data-driven dealmaking.

Come join us at Gunderson Dettmer next month for a glimpse into how firms are preparing for the era of data-driven law. As anyone who’s been to an Inside Practice LLC event can attest, these sessions will be packed with actionable takeaways for developing an industry-leading data strategy for your firm. Look forward to joining Sara Miro and Scott M. Angelo onstage to talk about “When Data Creates Competitive Advantage.”

Completely full house on a Sunday at the LLM x Law Hackathon hosted by CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, with Dr. Megan Ma kicking things off. So cool to see 550+ participants, some traveling from overseas, applying their technical talents to tackle legal industry problems that felt unsolvable just a couple years ago. It was this type of energy that opened the floodgates of innovation for fintech in the 2010s and biotech in the 2000s. Future household names in legaltech are being born right now.

Big announcement: our definitive NYC cookie ranking. To our New Yorker friends: do you agree? Any places we missed? I'll be in town next week, so shoot me a note if you'd like to meet up to discuss this important subject. Or generative AI. cc: Maman NYC