Seyfarth Synopsis: Federal judges are requiring attorneys to attest as to whether they have used generative artificial intelligence (AI) in court filings, and if so, how and in what manner it was used. These court orders come just days after two New York attorneys filed a motion in which ChatGPT provided citations to non-existent caselaw
You may have recently seen press reports about lawyers who filed and submitted papers to the federal district court for the Southern District of New York that included citations to cases and decisions that, as it turned out, were wholly made up; they did not exist. The lawyers in that case used the generative artificial
We are often asked if we incorporate artificial intelligence (“AI”) into our legal workflows and electronic discovery processes. This question is not surprising given the efficiencies and cost savings associated with AI.
Typically, these questions are followed by inquiries into how the AI tools work and their defensibility. That is, how the use of
We recently hosted a webinar “Recognize, Reduce, Review: Techniques to defensibly reduce your document review.” During the 30-minute presentation, Percipient’s Head of Forensics Vaish Palavalli and Document Review Project Manager Adam Szulczewski discussed eight techniques they use to reduce data collections to manageable sizes for efficient document reviews.
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The term “artificial intelligence” (AI) is popping up everywhere from e-discovery to beer brewing. What do you think of when you hear it? Is it sexy and cutting-edge? This article explores what AI really is.
Virtually every computer program can be viewed as taking some input, applying some procedure, and generating some output. A
In my last blog post, I discussed the benefits for law firms in establishing a Legal Hold Administrator position to manage legal hold activities for their clients as part of an overall eDiscovery program. Those benefits included provided better service to clients, ensuring compliance with Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Evidence
The first Mid-Atlantic IG3 was held at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.. It was a day and a half long with a keynote followed by two concurrent sets of sessions. I’ve provided some notes below from the sessions I was able to attend. You can find my full set of photos here.
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The annual EDRM Workshop was held at Duke Law School 
starting on the evening of May 15th and ending at lunch time on the 17th. It consisted of a mixture of panels, presentations, working group reports, and working sessions focused on various aspects of e-discovery. I’ve provided some highlights below. You can find my full
Ipro renamed their conference from Ipro Innovations to the Ipro Tech Show this year. As always, it was held at the Talking Stick Resort
in Arizona and it was very well organized. It started with a reception on April 29th that was followed by two days of talks. There were also training days bookending the