There are a lot of use cases for this type of automated research tool: “You ask your questions in plain English, as you would a colleague, and ROSS then reads through the entire body of law and returns a cited answer and topical readings from legislation, case law and secondary sources to get you up-to-speed…
Over the weekend, we took a tour of Laura Plantation, about an hour down the Mississippi River from our house. The tour includes a walk through one of the old slave cabins, and the guide talked a bit about not just what a slaves life on a sugar plantation would have been, but also what…
This is an obvious use of AI in law, allowing clients the ability to respond to questions and get legal documents like a will without the much higher expense of a lawyer’s time. This, is the part that jumped out at me though: “Much of the work these bots, and AI technology in general, do…
I’ve been meaning to write this post since I was following along with the ILTA Conference tweets a couple of weeks ago. I was struck by some of the things being shared during the keynotes about AI, specifically about the idea of learning modules that the team from IBM’s Watson project were talking about. My…
This is something to think about as we approach the day the GDPR goes in to effect in the EU: “One of the requirements of GDPR is that, even if a company obtains customer consent to use their personal data, that data cannot be processed or used for any other purpose other than that for…
I didn’t attend this year, but I did follow along on Twitter and try to see what everyone was talking about at this years conference. I noticed a lot of talk about AI, and technological change, but this is also something that needs to be discussed, law firms increasing separating the practice of law as…