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The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2016
December 31, 2016
THE LEGAL INDUSTRY GETS SMART ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. CHATBOTS START CHATTING ABOUT LAW. LEGAL STARTUPS FIND STARDUST. ANALYTICS EXPAND THEIR REACH. TECH FOR A2J GOES MAINSTREAM. INTERNET OF THINGS BECOMES A THING IN LAW. TECH CLE BECOMES MANDATORY. ALL U.S. CASE LAW GETS DIGITIZED. AT LAST! AVVO PUSHES THE LEGAL SERVICES ENVELOPE. AS SECURITY BURNS, LAW FIRMS FIDDLE.
December 31, 2016
THE LEGAL INDUSTRY GETS SMART ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. CHATBOTS START CHATTING ABOUT LAW. LEGAL STARTUPS FIND STARDUST. ANALYTICS EXPAND THEIR REACH. TECH FOR A2J GOES MAINSTREAM. INTERNET OF THINGS BECOMES A THING IN LAW. TECH CLE BECOMES MANDATORY. ALL U.S. CASE LAW GETS DIGITIZED. AT LAST! AVVO PUSHES THE LEGAL SERVICES ENVELOPE. AS SECURITY BURNS, LAW FIRMS FIDDLE.
The ABA’s Proposed 75% Bar Passage Rule And The Coming Legal Job Destruction Caused By Artificial Intelligence
December 30, 2016
The issue of ABA law school accreditation and the passage rates achieved by law schools is obviously quite volatile. The arguments pro and con the proposed ABA rule on accreditation and the need for law schools to achieve a 75% bar passage rate over a two year period contain hidden agendas that involve preset political positions and the self interest of a variety of groups, including the ABA, HBCU’s and law teachers who are already threatened by sharply falling enrollments. I have tried to stay...
December 30, 2016
The issue of ABA law school accreditation and the passage rates achieved by law schools is obviously quite volatile. The arguments pro and con the proposed ABA rule on accreditation and the need for law schools to achieve a 75% bar passage rate over a two year period contain hidden agendas that involve preset political positions and the self interest of a variety of groups, including the ABA, HBCU’s and law teachers who are already threatened by sharply falling enrollments. I have tried to stay...
Rational Judges, Not Extraneous Factors in Decisions
December 28, 2016
The graph tells a dramatic story of irrationality, presented in the 2011 paper Extraneous factors in judicial decisions....
December 28, 2016
The graph tells a dramatic story of irrationality, presented in the 2011 paper Extraneous factors in judicial decisions....
How AI Can Bring on a Second Industrial Revolution
December 27, 2016
"The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly — and technology is much the same, driven by patterns that are surprising but inevitable. Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound impact on nearly everything we do. Kelly explores three trends in AI we need to understand in order to embrace it and steer its development. "The most...
December 27, 2016
"The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly — and technology is much the same, driven by patterns that are surprising but inevitable. Over the next 20 years, he says, our penchant for making things smarter and smarter will have a profound impact on nearly everything we do. Kelly explores three trends in AI we need to understand in order to embrace it and steer its development. "The most...
Taylor Wessing Joins With France’s Predictice to Calculate Litigation Outcomes
December 26, 2016
Today seems to be a very French day for legal tech news. Here is a second story about French legal tech in the shape of Predictice, which is a French start-up working in the field of litigation analytics and case outcome prediction. Predictice has teamed up with the Paris office of UK law firm, Taylor Wessing, to explore what the legal tech company’s software can do, which has several aspects to it, such as intelligent search of case law and the utilisation of machine learning. However, probably...
December 26, 2016
Today seems to be a very French day for legal tech news. Here is a second story about French legal tech in the shape of Predictice, which is a French start-up working in the field of litigation analytics and case outcome prediction. Predictice has teamed up with the Paris office of UK law firm, Taylor Wessing, to explore what the legal tech company’s software can do, which has several aspects to it, such as intelligent search of case law and the utilisation of machine learning. However, probably...
Tesla Ahead of Google, Uber, Ford in Autonomous Car Race
December 26, 2016
There was, in hindsight, a clear element of risk to Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to install Autopilot hardware in every car coming off the production line since October 2014. It paid a price, with federal regulators probing the deadly crash of a Model S while in driver-assist mode and critics slamming Tesla for rolling the technology out too soon. But there was also a reward. The company has collected more than 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles operating under diverse...
December 26, 2016
There was, in hindsight, a clear element of risk to Tesla Motors Inc.’s decision to install Autopilot hardware in every car coming off the production line since October 2014. It paid a price, with federal regulators probing the deadly crash of a Model S while in driver-assist mode and critics slamming Tesla for rolling the technology out too soon. But there was also a reward. The company has collected more than 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles operating under diverse...
The Undoing Project Review – ‘Psychology’s Lennon and McCartney’
December 24, 2016
Michael Lewis tells the compelling story of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, whose behaviourist theories led to his own bestseller...
December 24, 2016
Michael Lewis tells the compelling story of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, whose behaviourist theories led to his own bestseller...
Michael Lewis’ Latest ‘Project’ is Brilliant
December 23, 2016
In Michael Lewis’ new book The Undoing Project (Norton, 352 pp., **** out of four stars), he describes the Nobel Prize-winning, behavioral-finance theory that Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky created in the 1970s as “a truck packed with psychology that might be driven into the inner sanctums of economics and exploded.” While Kahneman and Tversky were more genius than intellectual terrorist, their groundbreaking studies on how our minds trick us into making bad judgments...
December 23, 2016
In Michael Lewis’ new book The Undoing Project (Norton, 352 pp., **** out of four stars), he describes the Nobel Prize-winning, behavioral-finance theory that Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky created in the 1970s as “a truck packed with psychology that might be driven into the inner sanctums of economics and exploded.” While Kahneman and Tversky were more genius than intellectual terrorist, their groundbreaking studies on how our minds trick us into making bad judgments...
The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2016
December 21, 2016
The legal industry gets smart about artificial intelligence. In my top 10 list last year, I considered it big news that AI had come to legal research in the form of ROSS Intelligence, a startup that uses IBM’s Watson platform to answer lawyers’ natural-language legal research questions. Just as last year closed out, another AI company, Premonition — which says it is applying AI to the largest legal database in the world — announced a seed round at a $100 million valuation. In 2016,...
December 21, 2016
The legal industry gets smart about artificial intelligence. In my top 10 list last year, I considered it big news that AI had come to legal research in the form of ROSS Intelligence, a startup that uses IBM’s Watson platform to answer lawyers’ natural-language legal research questions. Just as last year closed out, another AI company, Premonition — which says it is applying AI to the largest legal database in the world — announced a seed round at a $100 million valuation. In 2016,...
How Artificial Intelligence Is Revolutionizing the Legal Practice
December 21, 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI), or the ability of a computer to complete intelligent tasks normally performed by people, has been a trending topic in the law lately, and for good reason. It has the ability to completely transform how lawyers work. AI has already been used for years with e-discovery platforms, but can AI also be used in another key area of litigation, legal research? Even further, can it ultimately replace attorneys conducting these tasks? To address these questions, I interviewed various...
December 21, 2016
Artificial intelligence (AI), or the ability of a computer to complete intelligent tasks normally performed by people, has been a trending topic in the law lately, and for good reason. It has the ability to completely transform how lawyers work. AI has already been used for years with e-discovery platforms, but can AI also be used in another key area of litigation, legal research? Even further, can it ultimately replace attorneys conducting these tasks? To address these questions, I interviewed various...
