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Artificial Intelligence Has Found a Home in Contract Management
August 5, 2016
As machine learning and artificial intelligence find traction within legal tech, they've found a fairly natural home in contract management work. In many ways, contracts provide perfect fodder for innovation and expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal world. Contracts are often mechanical, highly organized and filled with boilerplate language. They can also be exceedingly long and unwieldy, taking huge amounts of time and resources for attorneys to parse the content of a contract...
August 5, 2016
As machine learning and artificial intelligence find traction within legal tech, they've found a fairly natural home in contract management work. In many ways, contracts provide perfect fodder for innovation and expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal world. Contracts are often mechanical, highly organized and filled with boilerplate language. They can also be exceedingly long and unwieldy, taking huge amounts of time and resources for attorneys to parse the content of a contract...
Ninth Circuit Holds Client May Sue Former Law Firm After Mandatory Arbitration Was Terminated for Non-Payment
August 3, 2016
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a decision stating a law firm’s client may pursue a legal malpractice case against her former attorneys despite that she was unable to pay her share of mandatory arbitration expenses. In Tillman v. Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & McCartney, No. 13-56624 (9th Cir., June 15, 2016), a woman, Tillman, signed a retainer agreement with a law firm, Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & McCartney (“Rheingold”),...
August 3, 2016
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued a decision stating a law firm’s client may pursue a legal malpractice case against her former attorneys despite that she was unable to pay her share of mandatory arbitration expenses. In Tillman v. Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & McCartney, No. 13-56624 (9th Cir., June 15, 2016), a woman, Tillman, signed a retainer agreement with a law firm, Rheingold, Valet, Rheingold, Shkolnik & McCartney (“Rheingold”),...
Dentons and RAVN Team Up For Brexit Risk Analysis Project
July 31, 2016
Global law firm Dentons has teamed up with applied AI developer RAVN Systems to examine contracts that could be affected by Britain’s exit from the EU and its legal and regulatory umbrella. The project has been undertaken via Dentons’ technology development company, Nextlaw Labs. In a joint statement Dentons and RAVN said: ‘The technology automatically reviews high volumes of contract documentation to identify provisions that could potentially be impacted by the UK’s secession from...
July 31, 2016
Global law firm Dentons has teamed up with applied AI developer RAVN Systems to examine contracts that could be affected by Britain’s exit from the EU and its legal and regulatory umbrella. The project has been undertaken via Dentons’ technology development company, Nextlaw Labs. In a joint statement Dentons and RAVN said: ‘The technology automatically reviews high volumes of contract documentation to identify provisions that could potentially be impacted by the UK’s secession from...
But What About Lawyers? A Q&A With Richard Susskind on AI in Law
July 30, 2016
Scholar and lecturer Susskind predicts that artificial intelligence in law will take off in the 2020s. Among those curious about the technology’s impact on the profession is Richard Susskind, a scholar and lecturer whose work includes “The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services.’” In his view, AI “really takes off” in the 2020s, and until then won’t go mainstream. And while he finds it funny that lawyers think “AI is on the way” for them in the next few years,...
July 30, 2016
Scholar and lecturer Susskind predicts that artificial intelligence in law will take off in the 2020s. Among those curious about the technology’s impact on the profession is Richard Susskind, a scholar and lecturer whose work includes “The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services.’” In his view, AI “really takes off” in the 2020s, and until then won’t go mainstream. And while he finds it funny that lawyers think “AI is on the way” for them in the next few years,...
AI-Adopters Will Leave Rival Law Firms in Their Dust
July 28, 2016
Could you expand on why law firms which wait too long to adopt AI will lose out? AI has the power to vastly improve project execution be it from a time, cost or ‘accuracy’ standpoint. This in turn enhances a law firm’s value proposition and as such improves their chance of winning business. In the first instance AI may be seen as a differentiator in a world of relatively homogenous service offerings. Richard Belgrave, UK Managing Director of LEVERTONAlso, as is especially true...
July 28, 2016
Could you expand on why law firms which wait too long to adopt AI will lose out? AI has the power to vastly improve project execution be it from a time, cost or ‘accuracy’ standpoint. This in turn enhances a law firm’s value proposition and as such improves their chance of winning business. In the first instance AI may be seen as a differentiator in a world of relatively homogenous service offerings. Richard Belgrave, UK Managing Director of LEVERTONAlso, as is especially true...
Bexar County by the Numbers: Recent Bexar County District Court Statistics
July 19, 2016
In any gathering of lawyers, the discussion inevitably turns to what’s happening at the courthouse. Are case filings up? How many...
July 19, 2016
In any gathering of lawyers, the discussion inevitably turns to what’s happening at the courthouse. Are case filings up? How many...
Norton Rose to Pioneer Smart Contracts
July 18, 2016
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has agreed to collaborate with a group of smart contract pioneers, including Barclays,...
July 18, 2016
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has agreed to collaborate with a group of smart contract pioneers, including Barclays,...
Using Email to Teach Students Legal Analysis
July 16, 2016
This is a new article by Professor Katrina Lee (Ohio State) describing how she uses email as a way to help her students develop analytical writing skills. The article called Process Over Product: A Pedagogical Focus on Email as a Means of Refining Legal Analysis is available at 44 Capital L. Rev. 655 (2016) and on SSRN here. From the abstract: The prevalence of emails in law practice alone provides a compelling reason for assigning emails in the 1L legal writing course. Law students should learn...
July 16, 2016
This is a new article by Professor Katrina Lee (Ohio State) describing how she uses email as a way to help her students develop analytical writing skills. The article called Process Over Product: A Pedagogical Focus on Email as a Means of Refining Legal Analysis is available at 44 Capital L. Rev. 655 (2016) and on SSRN here. From the abstract: The prevalence of emails in law practice alone provides a compelling reason for assigning emails in the 1L legal writing course. Law students should learn...
Half of GC Expect AI Impact in 5 Years
July 16, 2016
Research by UK-based legal directory The Legal 500 has found that over 50% of General Counsel (GC) believe AI will have some impact on their inhouse teams within five years. However, around 7% still believed AI would have no impact at all, now or in the future. That said, if one factors in those who were unsure, then around 80% of GC believe there will be some impact from the use of AI. Fundamentally, using applied AI for cognition, extraction and then transforming the data into meaningful...
July 16, 2016
Research by UK-based legal directory The Legal 500 has found that over 50% of General Counsel (GC) believe AI will have some impact on their inhouse teams within five years. However, around 7% still believed AI would have no impact at all, now or in the future. That said, if one factors in those who were unsure, then around 80% of GC believe there will be some impact from the use of AI. Fundamentally, using applied AI for cognition, extraction and then transforming the data into meaningful...
Eight Classic Storytelling Techniques
July 15, 2016
The British Sparkol offers “8 Classic Storytelling Techniques for Engaging Presentations.” Some work for writing while other are more suited to oral presentations. Some are familiar, like “the hero’s journey.” Others are less familiar, like “nested loops.” Each comes with an explanation and examples. You can access the material here.
July 15, 2016
The British Sparkol offers “8 Classic Storytelling Techniques for Engaging Presentations.” Some work for writing while other are more suited to oral presentations. Some are familiar, like “the hero’s journey.” Others are less familiar, like “nested loops.” Each comes with an explanation and examples. You can access the material here.
