Add Real Christmas Cheer: Precision, Productivity, and the Tools Lawyers Deserve December tends to make lawyers reflective. Court calendars quiet down, inboxes slow just enough to allow thinking, and the year’s accumulated frustrations come into view: the documents that took too long, the numbering that fell apart at the worst time, the tools that promised…
The Human Advantage: Why AI Will Always Need a Supervisor
The Human Advantage Why AI Still Needs Will Always Need a Supervisor Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming a fixture in legal drafting—from contract clauses to court filings. But as the tools evolve, a hard truth remains: AI doesn’t know what it’s saying. And it certainly doesn’t know what it means. Which is why lawyers—real lawyers—must…
Scaling Artificial Intelligence
Scaling Artificial Intelligence A zettabyte is 270 bytes or 1 billion terabytes, which is 1 billion gigabytes History of Data Six years ago we commented to a Webinar audience, “2,300 years ago, Macedonian information workers gathered all the knowledge in the world into the great Library of Alexandria. Its 200,000 books were made available to…
What does AI think of Document Assembly Firms?
Most of us have seen thousands of articles on Artificial Intelligence. As always aspiring “experts” in document assembly and automation, we’ve been required to read far too many of them. Fair is fair, so we thought it would be interesting to ask the leading large language model AI what it thinks of the firms in…
Naming Our Newest Technology
. We’ve named the new Artificial Intelligence helper in the Diagnostic Portal our Diagnostic Assistant. We’re starting to think this technology may have a real future helping people filter huge amounts of information to find the specific bits and pieces they’re looking for. Our Diagnostic Assistant is being used by customers every day, is learning…
Is Artificial Intelligence Really Smart or Just Really Slick?
Smart or Slick? In our last newsletter we predicted that the effects of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) chat bots on the legal profession will be substantially less than the current hype. Last week, three researchers at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley reported that the “intelligence” demonstrated by leading large language model services (“artificial intelligence” agents, in this…
The Unintended Consequences of the COVID Lockdown
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The three immutable rules for evaluating web-based technology for lawyers
The three rules for evaluating web-based technology offerings to lawyers are infallible and immutable. 1. If the language is highfaluting, then it probably requires consultants to install, initiate, and maintain. 2. If you can’t understand the value proposition, there isn’t one. 3. If they don’t show their prices, you can’t afford it. Any questions?
How Can The Legal Industry Improve Efficiency? Part 3
This is the third and final installment in our series of deep thoughts and helpful hints from three true leaders in the effort to dramatically improve the efficiency and economics of the practice of law. This segment features spot-on comments by John Miller. 1. How do you suggest those in the legal industry best manage…
How Can The Legal Industry Improve Efficiency? Part 1
I was so impressed re-reading expert advice we published last summer that dividing it into sections by author seems like a real service to our friends in the legal community, given all the pressure on that segment. Here are some great ideas from Peggy Gruenke, a real productivity guru. 1. How do you suggest those…