Remaking News of the Week: End of the BigLaw business model?

Remaking News of the Week: End of the BigLaw business model? features a reflection by Richard Tromans in Artificial Lawyer, his always-topical, on-the-money publication.

In his July 2 piece, “Is the end of the traditional large law firm model here?” Richard reports this was his main thought after speaking to the leaders of Freshfields Lab in Berlin’s ‘cool Factory innovation space.

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Posted by on Jul 18, 2019 in Artificial intelligence, Business models, LawTech | 0 comments

Remaking News of the Week: Elevate’s James Odell shares his story

Remaking News of the Week: Elevate’s James Odell shares his story is a courageous disclosure about how he resolved the conflict between what he was doing during most of his waking hours and his fundamental values as a human being to break free.

James wrote The Pursuit of Happiness: Promise of the New Era on 5 May 2019 on the Elevate Services blog. I commend the three-minute read as a lesson for everyone, most particularly those in legal services where mental health is one of the largest challenges of our times.

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Posted by on Jun 27, 2019 in Artificial intelligence, Remaking News of the Week | 1 comment

Remaking News of the Week: What lawyers learn from Deep Blue

We all know IBM’s Deep Blue computer narrowly defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997, having lost the first match a year earlier.

Then in 2015 Google’s DeepMind triumphed in the AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol match. 

Now comes the story of AI defeating not one, but 20, corporate lawyers: 20 top lawyers were beaten by legal AI.

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Posted by on Nov 8, 2018 in Artificial intelligence, Remaking News of the Week | 0 comments

Harbinger of the change affecting #BigLaw, courtesy of @ArtificialLawya

Harbinger of the change affecting #BigLaw, courtesy of @ArtificialLawya breaks with the pattern of Dialogue: [1] I am publishing Richard Troman’s article as a news item [2] hours prior to the release of Ken Grady’s post on transformational change. This juxtaposition is a metaphor for what all BigLaw business model firms need to come to grips with, very quickly. Thank you Richard – and Ken.     

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Posted by on Mar 22, 2018 in Artificial intelligence, BigLaw firms, Digital strategy, Innovation | 0 comments

Seven articles to help you understand how AI can transform your legal practice

It’s been a busy month for the Kira Systems team with the announcement of our SOC2 Certification, enhanced document classifier, and new customers and partnerships. With all this buzz around artificial intelligence (AI), you may be wondering how much of it is real and can help you understand how AI can transform your legal practice.

To help you understand what is really happening with AI in the legal context, in 7 Articles to Help You Understand How AI Can Transform Your Legal Practice we’ve pulled together seven articles that cut through the hype.

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Posted by on Nov 28, 2017 in Artificial intelligence, Technology | 0 comments

Hype vs. Reality: Is everything AI now?

Today, Ron Friedmann, one of our regular contributors to Dialogue, penned this live post on Prism Legal from the Hype vs. Reality: Is everything AI now? session at the College of Law Practice Management annual Futures Conference in Atlanta. I don’t normally post four times in a week, but Ron’s piece is so topical and interesting, I am sharing it while it’s ‘hot’. Thank you Ron; you are one of the master’s of the art of live-blogging. 

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Posted by on Oct 27, 2017 in Artificial intelligence | 1 comment