The next to last Keynote at Filevine’s LEX Summit was a big one. It featured an interview of the renowned lawyer Alex Spiro by Ryan Anderson, CEO of Filevine. Two high-powered individuals sharing the stage.
Spiro has tried countless high-profile cases including defending the actor, Alec Baldwin. He’s also represented Elon Musk, the mayor
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
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.
“I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.” Diane Von Furstenberg
When I was headed to the airport after one of my many tech related committee meetings recently, a young committee member who was with me asked me how I maximized
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
A recent survey by DeepL, an AI translation service, reveals a risk of continued hallucinations and inaccuracies with the use of AI. Spoiler alert: 96% of those surveyed are using AI, 71% are using it without approval of their organization (aka shadow use) mainly to deliver work faster.
Why It Hit Home
The survey