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The second day of ILTA’s Evolve Conference—a two-day event with just two tracks, AI and Cybersecurity—started with a bang. Zach Abramowitz, founder and CEO of ReplyAll, investor, and thought influencer, delivered a two-hour presentation titled AI in Legal Practice: Insights, Strategies and Practical Applications. Abramowitz spoke at Evolve last year, and it was interesting to see how his thinking on AI has evolved.

It’s tough to speak for two hours and keep an audience engaged, but Abramowitz pulled it off. He made a number of great points, but three in particular stood out to me:Continue Reading Jevons Revisited: GenAI Will Accelerate Legal Demand

This week, I am attending the Evolve conference put on by International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). ILTA, of course, sponsors the large conference in the summer that is attended by thousands. Evolve is much smaller and is designed to address two topics: GenAI and Cybersecurity. Attendance is capped at a limited number, and exhibitors and sponsors are confined to small, uniform spaces in hallways outside the sessions.Continue Reading Key Lessons from ILTA’s Evolve Keynote: Cybersecurity Is a Constantly Growing Threat

A new Thomson Reuters Report highlights a phenomenon unique to legal and big law: clients aren’t talking to their lawyers about things that could disrupt the status quo—especially around AI and billing.

The report is full of interesting findings, but here’s one with broad and troubling implications: 57% of clients want their firms to use GenAI, but 71% don’t even know if their firms are actually doing so. 89% of all respondents see a real use case for GenAI in their work. Nevertheless, the report notes that just 8% of in-house counsel are inserting GenAI provisions in RFPs or outside counsel guidelines.Continue Reading The AI Conversation Law Firms and Clients Aren’t Having And Why It Matters

If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions. Albert Einstein

The ABA TechShow, which I had the honor of co-chairing this year, wrapped up on April 5, 2025, in Chicago, marking its 40th anniversary. The conference featured over 70 educational sessions, high-energy networking receptions, dozens of “lunch and learn” events, and even an 80s-themed anniversary party to commemorate four decades of innovation.Continue Reading ABA TechShow 2025: A Landmark Event That Highlights the Power of Team

Today is World Backup Day (yes, that’s a thing). World BackUp Day has been observed every year since 2011. The idea behind World Backup Day is simple:

  • • Raise awareness of the crucial role data plays in all aspects of our lives
  • Highlight the importance of safeguarding and preserving valuable digital assets and information
  • Emphasize the need to back up data regularly to prevent loss from hardware failures, cyberattacks, or accidental deletions

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LegalWeek 2025 comes to a close today, March 27th. A week filled with educational sessions, parties, and announcements. Add to that an endless stream of meetings with vendors all too eager to show off their latest and greatest and you can see why I might be pooped. And I get to do it again next week at ABA TechShow.

Lots of people ask, what did you see or hear about at Legalweek that really got your attention? The truth is not much in the way of big announcements. All too often the big announcements turn out to be a repeat of what the vendor already has on the market or something they promise will be on the market someday. It’s like drinking from a fire hose.

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The actor and well-known personality Rob Lowe took the keynote stage at LegalWeek 2025 yesterday (March 26) for a roughly 45-minute interview with ALM’s Gina Passarella, editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer. Lowe is not just an actor—he’s also a producer, director, and author. The keynote was entitled The Art of Reinvention: Turning Setbacks into Stepping Stones.

Lowe was engaging, funny, and full of colorful stories and anecdotes. Turns out, he’s a pretty good storyteller by the way. That said, there was little in his talk that directly touched on law or legal tech—aside from the fact that his 86-year-old father is a practicing lawyer in Dayton, Ohio.Continue Reading To Be or Not To Be: LegalTech Conference Keynotes, the Eternal Debate

I attended an interesting panel discussion at the opening day at LegalWeek 2025. The presentation was called Do My Eyes Deceive Me? GenAI Hallucinations in Legal Research Citation Tools. The presentation was put on by AALL and the panelists were all law librarians — Anna Russell from Cornell, Diana Koppang from Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Mandy Lee from Seton Hall, and Paul Callister from the University of Missouri.

Let me say up front: law librarians are some of the most trustworthy and practical voices when it comes to evaluating how GenAI—and, for that matter, other technologies—are actually functioning for legal research. They know how to ask better questions and look at a problem from every angle — something many lawyers don’t do or are not good at.Continue Reading Law Librarians to Lawyers: Read the Cases. Critically. Carefully