I am not familiar with the 404 Media podcast, but their feature 18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It is worth a read. We have certainly well past that time where perhaps judges were unfamiliar with the AI and would give early adopting lawyers some benefit of the doubt for errors. But
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The September 2025 issue of ABA Law Practice Magazine has a finance theme. Mark Robertson and I wrote the lead story for it, Value Billing in an Age of Artificial Intelligence. Since AI specifically, and office automation tools generally, impact many aspects of the future of billing for legal services, I’m going to immodestly
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Note: I’m going to spend the next few days republishing some posts and articles that are difficult to locate and still have some value. I note that this article, originally published in
Spring Cleaning Your Law Firm Data
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Lawyers have held and safeguarded client data for generations. Of course, in the past, it wasn’t called data. Our data was in paper client files, forms to “go by” and brief banks.
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Judge Scott Schlegel from Louisiana was a speaker at the 2023 Oklahoma Access to Justice Summit. Last year, I noted his conviction that both courts and law firms should embrace text message reminders to reduce failure-to-appear issues. Lawyers want to make certain their clients, especially potential new clients, do not miss their scheduled appointments
Automated Document Assembly is Easy, Right?
Decades ago, I assumed that technology would soon advance to the point where automated document assembly would be fully incorporated in most law offices across the country. While great strides have been made in law office technology tools, and tools for automatically generating documents are much improved over what was available decades previously, many law
ABA TECHSHOW 2024 Early Bird Deadline is this Week. I hope to see you there.
2023 cast a huge spotlight on Artificial Intelligence tools. That means it is a great year to attend ABA TECHSHOW, which will be held in Chicago February 14 – 17, 2024. But it is time to decide now! The Early Bird registration ends on Friday, January 11 Update: The ABA TECHSHOW website now says the
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By Jim Calloway and Julie Bays
In August’s Law Practice Tips column, “ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence and the Lawyer,”we covered the development of AI tools and some
challenges they have presented to attorneys who did not appreciate the limitations of ChatGPT. This month, we will look at more AI-powered tools and techniques for using them.
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