It’s a wrap. CES 2025 is finally over. Here’s my post for Above the Law summarizing my ten top takeaways in general. And the three things I think may most impact legal over the next year or so: the advent of AI agents, deepfakes and how AI will affect law firm managment and supervsion of
AI, Gen AI and Agent AI: What Do They Mean for the Future of Legal Work?
A CES panel last week considered the future of work as AI becomes more and more engrained. Like most businesses, law firms need to think about what the AI tools mean for the future of legal work. What do law firms and, for that matter, lawyers and legal professionals need to do to prepare for
Sex, Lies and Deepfakes: CES Panel Paints a Scary Portrait
Lies. Scams. Disinformation. Misinformation. Voice cloning. Likeness cloning. Deepfakes. Manipulated photographs. Manipulated videos. They all pose tough questions for lawyers, judges and juries.AI has exploded the possibilities of all these things to the point that it’s almost impossible to trust anything. Lack of trust has enormous implications for lawyers, judges, and the way we resolve
Enough Already, CES: Just What Is Agentic AI And Why Should Lawyers Care?
Lots of talk at CES about agentic AI. What is it and what can AI agents do for lawyers and legal professionals? AI agents have the potential to improve efficiency and client satisfaction, but they may also raise some challenges. Here is my post for Above the Law on the issues.
What I Learned At CES Abour Law Practice Management
CES may be a strange place to learn some law practice management lessons but I did. Here’s my post for Above the Law on just this subject.
What Lawyers Can Learn From CES 2025: Trends That Matter
On a Sunday evening January 5, the Consumer Technology Association offered its 2025 Tech Trends presentation at CES as well as its Unveiled event offering media a sneak peak at this year’s exhibitors. Here is my summary of the Trends and how those trends might impact legal. I also talk what I thought was cool
CES 2025: Insights for Legal
AI Insights for Legal: Ten Key Takeaways from Summit AI New York
As I recently wrote, I attended the Summit AI New York last week (which, as the name suggests, was in New York City). Summit AI is a global conference and exhibition focused on the application of AI in business in general as opposed to legal in specific. The numbers from the 2-day Conference are impressive: more than 4000 attendees, 400 speakers across 11 different areas, and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors.
The Conference has been held for several years. Summit AI is a series of conferences that, in addition to New York, are held in London, Las Vegas, Singapore, and other locations. (There was one law firm with a booth by the way. Foley and Lardner, a full-service lawyer with some 26 offices, had a well-staffed booth and told me they are regular attendees).Continue Reading AI Insights for Legal: Ten Key Takeaways from Summit AI New York
Generative AI and the New Era of Preventive Lawyering
One GenAI legal disruption that’s not talked much about is its potential to head off disputes and problems in advance. Elimination of disputes means less need for lawyers, particularly litigators. I have written about the potential for technology to do just this before. But GenAI and AI have the potential to advance preventive lawyering in ways we haven’t thought of. I learned of one interesting way in a recent conversation with Bruce Kiefer, Vice President of Software Engineering of OpenText.Continue Reading Generative AI and the New Era of Preventive Lawyering
Three Takeaways From NetDocuments’ Inspire 2024: GenAI, One Stop Services and BTW, We Need to Talk
The NetDocuments user conference, Inspire 2024, took place in Atlanta this week. NetDocuments is a sophisticated cloud-based document management system. It offers an end-to-end platform for document and email organization and management. NetDocuments has over 7,000 customers globally.
Three things stood out from the Conference.
- NetDocuments is positioning itself to be a player in the AI, GenAI, and automation market by combining these tools with its document management services platform.
- NetDocuments is positioning itself as a one stop platform for all document management services for customers’ content.
- Most importantly, the tools NetDocuments is offering and will offer in the future provide a glimpse into just how disruptive GenAI will be in the legal marketplace. And how ill-prepared we are for it.