A couple of big announcements at Filevine’s LEX Summit this week. The company announced its entry into legal research by integrating AI into its Chat with My Case tool. It also unveiled enhanced deposition tools that address real litigation friction points.
Here’s my post for Above the Law on why these moves matter, what questions
In one of the first acquisitions of its kind, legal tech company Lawhive recently acquired outright a UK law firm. This could signal the beginning of a fundamental shift in how legal services are delivered.
As Jordan Furlong recently predicted, AI may enable firms to “generate output that can be sold to clients with
Here is a link to my Above the Law article on the importance of words.
I recently had an LLM suggest I remove ‘hot mess’ from a blog title. When I pushed back, it suddenly agreed the term was perfect. That post was one of my more popular ones.
This got me thinking about how
Law firms are facing a perfect storm: rising client demand, increased competition, and associates leaving at double the rate from last year.
New data from BigHand shows that 43% of work assignment decisions are based on personal preference rather than merit, and 45% of firms only have partial data on associate capacity and utilization.
The
Figuring out how to train young lawyers in the AI era feels like Churchill’s description of Russia: “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
NYU’s Clay Shirky argues that students are taking shortcuts with AI despite the best efforts to make it a learning partner. His solution is to go back to in-class
A few days ago, I published ten hints to help enjoy the experience of travel while avoiding the risk of hassles. As promised then, here are ten more. These are a bit more specific but are all based on experience. I’ve tried to arrange these more by categories.
Continue Reading My Second Top Ten Travel TipsHere is a link to my Above the Law post on the how safe your data is in the cloud.While cloud adoption rates by law firms keeps climbing, there’s little discussion about who’s actually responsible when that data disappears.
New research suggests 85% of law firms don’t understand that cloud providers like Microsoft and Google
NetDocuments recently launched a Judge Analytics App that mines your firm’s files to create profiles of judges, their tendencies, ruling patterns, and preferences. Good use of AI to turn past case data into practical intelligence. But will this widen the gap between big firms with massive databases and smaller practices? Maybe. Maybe not.
Here is
8am (formerly AffiniPay ) is pulling off something ambitious: launching its first Kaleidoscope conference while simultaneously rebranding.
What caught my attention isn’t the new name (though yes, some people are scratching their heads due to lack of knowledge). It’s the format: 30-45 minute panels with expert panelists tackling hard questions. No softballs.
After attending too