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Yesterday at Inflection Point: The Legal AI Revolution – Part 2 we examined what it means to be a lawyer in today’s AI-enabled world, #AI Investments, talent consolidation, trust, and client use, and how AI will transform the value proposition of the law firms in the future. We would like to thank all of our speaking faculty including Anand Upadhye, Danielle Benecke, David Cunningham, Nicole Bradick, David Wang, Ken Crutchfield, Alison Grounds, David Perez, Scott Rechtschaffen, Jacqueline Schafer, Christian Lang, Natalie Pierce, Ed Walters, Joel Roy, Jordan Furlong, Jennifer Leonard, Jae Um, Andrew P. Medeiros, Jessica Davis, Christopher Forstner, Jenn McCarron, Jason Barnwell, James Ding, Samuel Smolkin and event partners DraftWise and Office & Dragons for an incredible day of discussion, thought leadership and insights. Full review coming soon. Next, we turn our attention to Legal AI Pathfinder’s Assembly: New York. Taking place December 7th, hosted by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP this peer-to-peer forum is being developed for law firms to share progress, experience, observations, and experimentation in an intimate setting as we collectively grapple with the development of strategic roadmaps that will help guide proper investment, education, and deployment of emerging AI tools and tech. The program will showcase how Gunderson Dettmer, BakerHostetler. Troutman Pepper, Gibson Dunn and Mayer Brown are leaning in, proactively experimenting, and invested in the strategic integration of AI into both the firm’s practice and business –  providing an opportunity to take stock of where we collectively stand as the year winds down — exploring and addressing several critical questions that will help us all to better understand our own firm readiness concerning a future rife with complexity, opportunity, and risk. Without question, there are some early adopters that had the foresight to begin their AI and tech journeys years ago. While other firms are merely attempting to determine a point of entry on a train that’s already moving. In either case, we hope you will join us as we assess and dissect an emerging collective blueprint poised to redefine conventional operational paradigms that will reshape the very DNA of law firm operational strategy. Seating is limited. Reserve your spot today! Early bird - Confirm your place by October 11th and save $200 More Information: https://lnkd.in/ewAyXwaV

This has been a fascinating project to be involved with. Lots more to do, but the early output (for some use cases) looks impressive. What’s really interesting to is how many more use cases the teams have come up with, once they’ve had a chance to try out the technology and get used to working in a slightly different way. Like all emerging tech, just because a tool can do something doesn’t mean it will always do it better or more efficiently. Blending human input and oversight, powered by AI, is a really interesting model but it’s also super expensive at scale on current licensing models, so (my personal) view is that anyone planning to deploy needs a really thought through strategy for how they will use it first. Looking forward to seeing where we come out! #foodforthought #artificialintelligence #addleshawgoddard #legaltech

As reflected in the timely recap of discussions below, legal is the canary in the coal mine for every professional services firm and enterprise with knowledge workers. But it's not just highly skilled professionals whose work is being transformed by Generative AI. In every organization, large and small, hundreds, if not thousands, of decisions are being made each and every day by individuals from the front line all the way up to senior leadership, as well as by operational systems programmed to make decisions. Generative AI has the potential to speed up decision making and improve the accuracy and effectiveness of decisions and their execution, across the organization. Stay tuned for a more refined framework that helps organizations identify and prioritize opportunities to leverage Generative AI.

It has been fascinating to watch our AI practice grow these past few years. The firm has a clear vision on how to utilize this cutting-edge tool to transform the practice of law and deliver more value to our clients. In this article, DLA Piper’s Loren Brown and Danny Tobey talked with Bloomberg's Roy Strom about our innovative work in the #GenerativeAI space.

Empowering the world with the transformative potential of AI is not merely a task for technology companies; it is a collective responsibility we all share. Let's embrace this responsibility and work together to harness the power of AI for the greater good. #AI #Innovation #Responsibility #AvePoint #The AI Trust Foundation

It doesn't get much better than spending a lively hour with Jordan Furlong Jae Um and Anand Upadhye exploring the future of law firms and legal education. One of the most interesting (and fun!) conversations I've been honored to join! Excited for the AI Pathfinders Assembly Inside Practice LLC. Thank you for convening these important, timely, and lively discussions. #generativeai #legalinnovation #lawfirms

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“Loren Brown is the rare law firm leader I’ve spoken with who can articulate a business plan around generative artificial intelligence. The US vice chair of DLA Piper has a strategy to capture new, AI-related work today while investing in people and technologies that could build the future firm that many lawyers find so distressing." writes Roy Strom in Bloomberg Law. In this article, DLA Piper’s Loren Brown and Danny Tobey, M.D., J.D. talked with Bloomberg's Roy Strom about our innovative work in the generative AI space. Read the full story at the link to understand how we're utilizing this cutting-edge tool to transform the practice of law. #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence

Does this sound like the meetings you're having? I got you. Here are 7 law firms differentiating themselves with #generativeAI by going beyond buying off-the-shelf. 🏆 Mishcon de Reya LLP ...has been doing AI research for years - and MDR Lab and MDR Research are one of their USPs. First led by Alastair Moore, now headed up by Daniel Hoadley. 🏆 Dentons ...launched #fleetAI as the first firm-wide, private and secure Generative AI playground, with 65% adoption in 6 weeks and 7-10 new clients meetings about AI per week. Pioneered by Joe Cohen and now led by James Markham, Rowena Rix and Sam Chen, AMEI. 🏆 Hogan Lovells ...have been launching conversational AI based solutions since 2019, most recently (this week) with the announcement of CRAIG. Under Stephen A. back then, and led by now Marcus Busch. 🏆 Allen & Overy ...have been running Fuse, their innovation hub, for 8 years in a row. A&O were also the first firm to test Harvey in a big way in 2023, and launched the contract negotiation tool ContractMatrix 4 weeks ago. 🏆 Addleshaw Goddard ...Launched A-GPT to make LLMs accessible to their workforce and clients and have been up-skilling dozens of their lawyers to become Legal Engineers. Leading the way at AG are Michael Kennedy, Kerry Westland and Elliot White. 🏆 Travers Smith ...Launched TS-Bot, a GPT platform for lawyers and business services to experiment with AI. TS also launched Analyse, an accuracy checker. Initiatives are under the leadership of Shawn Curran 🏆 Linklaters ...Launched Laila, a GenAI chatbot, evolving since its inception in March 2023 and now handling 2600+ queries/day led by Shilpa Bhandarkar. These innovative leaders are blazing trails with generative AI at their firms. I know of 17 other law firms that are in stealth mode, currently building awesome GenAI solutions that will launch in the coming month and change their legal niche in 2024. Who else is already live and should be on this list? ___ I write about my learnings on generative AI product, strategy, roadmap and up-skilling. Follow me for more content like this 👍 Ps. My team and I at Springbok AI specialise in GenAI for the legal industry and help you trailblaze without the burden of hiring and managing a tech team. How? Via GenAI implementation on top of your private, firm-branded GPT instance that we provide. #AIforLegal #AIinLaw #GenerativeAIinlaw #Legaltech #LLMsinlaw

"The conversations that I'm having with law firms now are very different than they were six months ago... law firms in particular, are more engaged and more experimental than they have been at any phase of the process so far." I'm thrilled to share my conversation with Jeff Pfeifer, Chief Product Officer at LexisNexis. We sat down live during the hustle and bustle of ILTACON a few weeks ago. I had an opportunity to discuss embedding AI into Lexis' product portfolio, enabling new workflows, and the bets LexisNexis has made over the years, which are starting to pay dividends. Key takeaways 🚀 Legal AI hype remains, but increased law firm experimentation suggests growing pragmatism ⚙️ Natural language and document creation abilities show promise for legal workflows ⚡ Driving real productivity gains is critical to avoid disillusionment trough integration into existing tools and demonstrating benefits key to adoption Listen to the full episode and read the analysis from the discussion here: https://lnkd.in/gkuZzkrs #lawfirm #lawyers #ai #genai #km #innovation #productdevelopment #iltacon2023