Legaltech Week
LawNext Media
A weekly round-up and review of news in legal technology and innovation, selected by industry leading journalists. Hosted by lawyer and journalist Bob Ambrogi.
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May 16, 2024 • 59min
05/10/24: ILTA Evolve, legal tech acquisitions, matter management guide, and more
Guest Ed Walters discusses Robot Law, vLex merger, legal market size. Panelists cover ILTA Evolve, legal tech acquisitions, matter management solutions, ABA ethics opinion on technology use, and fighting bots in the legal niche.
Apr 19, 2024 • 56min
04/19/24: Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel plans (with guest Jake Heller), vLex expands Vincent AI, and more
Special guest Jake Heller discusses Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel AI expansion across professional verticals. vLex's Vincent AI document analysis and brain wave data privacy. Congress's privacy law changes and NY Bar Association AI guidance.
Apr 8, 2024 • 57min
04/05/24: Petition to ABA to cease using term "nonlawyer", Yale Law School Law Archive, and more
This week's legal tech podcast discusses the petition to ban the term 'non-lawyer' by legal innovators, Yale Law School's Law Archive for open access legal scholarship, concerns over word limits in legal cases, 'The Matrix' tech reality, Luminance's funding, US and UK bilateral AI safety agreement, and Winston & Strawn's tech-powered legal venture
Apr 8, 2024 • 57min
03/29/24: Neil Gorsuch's research, first legal LLM built from lawfully obtained data, and more
Neil Gorsuch confidently declared that he did the research on legal tech topics in a recent podcast episode. Other interesting discussions include the development of a unique legal language model, challenges of generative AI in legal citations, legal research failures, EU regulations on big tech, and innovations in law firms.
Mar 6, 2024 • 58min
March 1: Justices on social media law, ROSS cofounder returns to legal tech, and more
Justices skeptical of social media laws, Sora deep fake technology, AI assistant for contracts, ROSS cofounder's return to legal tech, Apple Vision Pro review, innovative LawPay credit card/software combo for law firms
Feb 26, 2024 • 57min
Feb. 23: Techshow and the infinite AI product updates, hallucinated cases, and chatbots
Legal journalists discuss ABA Techshow, cases of fake citations in court filings, a law firm's fee request based on chatbot search, and the legal entity responsibility of chatbots. Insights on AI hype and integration in legal services, ethical concerns of using AI in legal research, and legal battles involving Air Canada's chatbot.
Feb 5, 2024 • 53min
Feb. 2: Legalweek conference recap, and other legal tech conference thoughts
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 02:52 - Legalweek Conference recap 35:50 - Report on the Innovations in Technology Conference put on this week by the Legal Services Corporation (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 40:35 - More Ethics Guidance Arrives Amid Rapid Releases Of Legal AI (Selected by Niki Black) 46:12 - Lexis Nexis Report (Selected by Jean O'Grady)
Feb 2, 2024 • 58min
January 26: Litigator lost her voice, AI brought it back; plus two guest panelists
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 02:52 - ‘Not Going Away’: A Star Greenberg Traurig Litigator Lost Her Voice. AI Brought it Back (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 13:40 - Jumping Into the Rabbit Hole: Experts Offer 3 Big 'Deepfake' Insights for Legal in 2024 (Selected by Isha Marathe) 25:45 - AI ‘hallucinated’ fake legal cases allegedly filed to B.C. court in Canadian first (Selected by Greg Lambert) 34:23 - An AI ethics opinion from the Florida Bar (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 38:08 - A grand squabble in the Lone Star State, where a band of lawyers, as self-righteous as they be cunning, fiercely opposed a plan to let people who aren’t lawyers own pieces of law firms. Safeguarding the treasure of justice or just hoarding it for themselves (Selected by Stephen Embry)
Jan 20, 2024 • 55min
Jan 19 2023: What causes legal tech flops, and what role does the c-suite play; plus AI music rights
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: 00:00 - Introductions 04:15 - Legalweek expectations 13:33 - What causes product flops in the legal space? Should legal tech be founded by technologists or lawyers? (Selected by Stephen Embry and Bob Ambrogi) 38:55 - AI-generated music is everywhere; is any of it legal? (Selected by Victor Li) 48:23 - Gen AI Will Require Robust KM Teams: A Chat with Legalweek Speaker Oz Benamram (Selected by Jean O'Grady)
Jan 18, 2024 • 58min
Jan 12 2023: Carta credibility allegations, judge rejects motion with exploding head emoji, and more
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week's topics: Carta, a key tech company for startups, has a credibility problem Agiloft Releases Generative AI Feature To Shortcut Contract Negotiations and Better Align Redlines Judge Rejects a Motion With the “Exploding Head” Emoji–DePietro v. Levitt Paralegals' suit claims First Amendment right to offer legal advice on court forms Hallucinations... not just for caselaw The Bell Cannot Be Unrung': Coached Testimony Caught on Camera Results in Dismissal
