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AI has no reason to exist on its own. Yet, it can sometimes feel like the purpose of AI is simply to enable you to have AI tools at your disposal. Or alternatively we can get bogged down in finding…

Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** AI in Law Firms: Ethics Committees Are Clearing the Path Forward Whenever new technologies become available to lawyers, ethical concerns initially pose a significant hurdle to adoption. This friction is understandable. Legal professionals are necessarily cautious about tinkering with trusted legal workflows and processes, sometimes resulting in a reluctance to embrace new and innovative ways of working. Our clients trust us with highly sensitive information, and we have an obligation to ensure that confidentiality is not compromised when implementing new software. We rely...

A CES panel on workplace technology provides insights for the legal industry.

A practical guide for trial lawyers who want to try out AI LLMs (ChatGPT-4) in their practice and including simple-to-follow instructions and prompt examples.

In their annual report on the state of the U.S. legal market, Thomson Reuters and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law say that 2024 was a pivotal year for law firms, markin...

Future legal teams will have attorneys and AI agents working together. Sound futuristic? A recent panel said it’s closer than you might think.

A new report shows that just 10 percent of law firms have implemented specific policies to guide their organization’s use of generative AI.

A senior executive with ContractPodAi discusses how legal AI poses economic benefits for in-house departments and disruption risks for law firm billing models.

Alex Smith | As more lawyers begin to lean on generative AI tools, there is a rising question about how this will impact pricing.

By Anonymous. Lawyers make mistakes. That’s why they take out professional liability insurance. This raises the question in the wake of the Stanford University study into the accuracy of Thomson Re…

A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practice...

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”  The Queen

Solo and small firm lawyers intend to adopt artificial intelligence at a much faster pace than their larger-firm counterparts, but their clients are even more enthusiastic about the technology, believ...

This week, I share some takeaways from a course on legal prompt engineering—an essential skill for all lawyers to develop.