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October 2019
Law firms, especially large law firms, have been blogging blind for too long—hoping blogs by practice area or a lawyer’s hunch without a clear strategy will bring business development success.
That’s voodoo marketing. We’re in the days of AI now. The firms that keep blogging the old way—without data, without a real strategy—will find themselves
Legal blog publications, that is blogs published with their own title and on their own domain, as opposed to legal blogs run inside a law firm marketing website, are going to perform better in AI knowledge systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
This, for a lot of reasons, especially being that such blogs are being published
Attorney and innovator Carolyn Elefant shared this last weekend:
In Silicon Valley, AI is rewriting the playbook for how startups launch, and there’s a lot law firms can learn.
The old model? Raise millions, hire fast, and scale aggressively. But today, AI is changing the equation. The secret? AI tools handling customer service, marketing, and
Mike Isaac, Cade Metz and David Fahrenthold of The New York Times reported Monday evening that a group of investors led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4 billion bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI (and ChatGPT), escalating a yearslong, deeply personal tussle for the future of artificial intelligence
I have been using this blog as a personal assistant, if you will, for responding to client questions, for education across our network and drafting blog posts.
I was recently asked by business development leadership in a major law firm about the difference between blog publishing and other forms of content marketing.
I turned to
Sunday evening, OpenAI launched ‘deep research’ in ChatGPT, that conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks. It accomplishes in minutes what would take a human many hours.
I read an article from the Mayo Clinic Insider, yesterday, that got me thinking about data from legal blogs and articles being used to help lawyers do a better job for their clients.
When Doctor David Jones, was a med student at Georgetown, his grandmother developed Alzheimer’s. She had anosognosia, meaning she didn’t know
For too long, legal research companies have relied on resources such as law reviews, law journals, treatises and legal periodicals as their leading source of information beyond primary law.
While these publications have their place in more of an academic and theory context, they fall short in addressing the practical, real-time needs of legal professionals
Could we create a domain-specific LLM by training a ChatGPT-like model on a curated dataset of legal blogs?
Such a model could serve as a powerful knowledge base for the public, legal professionals and businesses.
We’ve got a start on the Open Legal Blog Archive backed by LexBlog with over 54,000 authors and 806,000 blog
The adoption of legal technology – even legal blogging – has historically been slow in the legal field—but not so with artificial intelligence (AI).
Last month, the Illinois Supreme Court took a step forward by releasing its policy on AI use in courts, effective January 1. With appropriate boundaries, the Court’s policy embraces AI as