“Those that are equipped with and know how to ably use AI are going to be outdoing those lawyers and law firms that do not.”

The FutureWork podcast episode 6 features Dr. Lance Eliot, a regular Forbes contributor and AI Fellow at Stanford University and Dazza Greenwood, a renowned Fortune 100 legal tech advisor and the Executive Director of Law.MIT.edu. Both guests have industry-leading research and publications, and they routinely counsel attorneys, CEOs, educators, and business leaders. Lance and Dazza are also on the cutting edge of GenAI trends–developing roadmaps for legal teams, engineers and executives to transform the future.

Viewing generative AI as an effective tool for lawyers and not something to fear, Lance and Dazza provide listeners with suggestions for the most effective uses of legal prompt engineering and generative AI as a whole. From summarizing discovery material to identifying ambiguities in a legal document, generative AI can be a huge asset to the legal field. However, they caution that the results are only as good as the prompts.

Tune in as Natalie, Lance, and Dazza discuss key steps in creating a framework for the responsible use of generative AI in the practice of law, crucial techniques for how to boost your prompt engineering skills as a lawyer, high value use cases for generative AI in the practice of law, and why lawyers are in a great starting position to use generative AI. 

Key Highlights

1. An effective framework for harnessing the power of generative AI responsibly in the practice of law involves formulating well-constructed prompts, reviewing and critiquing the outputs, iteration, and human oversight.
2. AI is coming into law practices, whether lawyers or law firms want it or not.
3. Prompt engineering is the idea that there are effective ways to craft prompts to carry on conversations with generative AI that are beneficial to the person who is interacting with the generative AI.
4. Summarization is an example of a high value use of generative AI on legal tasks. 
5. There are various prompt engineering techniques that lawyers can use to effectively interact with generative AI.

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Name: Natalie Pierce

Organization: Gunderson Dettmer

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Name:  Dr. Lance Eliot

Organization: Stanford University Center for Legal Informatics

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Name: Dazza Greenwood 

Organization: Civics.com | law.mit.edu

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