

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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Oct 7, 2023 • 56min
October 7, 2023: AI convinced a man to commit treason, Tom Hanks AI, and other legal tech topics
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 01:52 - Michael Mills, cofounder of Neota Logic, has passed away 07:53 - The Path To Generative AI Proficiency For Legal Professionals (Selected by Niki Black) 14:36 - Major Law Firms Form Consortium to Develop AI Training through SkillBurst Interactive; Subscription Access Available to Other Firms (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 17:53 - Gen AI’s ‘Collective Brain Trust’ Gathers to Discuss Practical Use Cases and Successes at Invite-Only Event (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 22:53 - Budget Busting, Bundling and Bungling- The worst legal information mergers (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 30:10 - I’m back…Don’t write off the Metaverse. Meta creating personalized realistic avatars that can pass for the real thing (Selected by Stephen Embry) 40:55 - AI convinced a guy to commit treason (Selected by Joe Patrice) 50:11 - Zuva and Litera Jointly Develop Classification Taxonomy for Legal Documents and Make It Open Source through the SALI Alliance (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

Oct 5, 2023 • 60min
September 29, 2023: Judge rules on Ross vs. Westlaw, David Horrigan speaks on RelativityFest, & 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: 00:00 - Introductions 03:11 - Judge Rules Ross Intelligence Copied Westlaw’s Headnotes, But Leaves for Jury to Decide if It Violated Thomson Reuters’ Copyright (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 13:05 - Should a Federal Agency Govern AI? (Selected by Niki Black) Increasing Contractual Insight: AI’s role in contract lifecycle management (Selected by Niki Black) 26:17 - Mark Zuckerberg can’t quit the Metaverse (Selected by Victor Li) 32:52 - More in house lawyers together with better tools to get work done more efficiently impacts demand for outside lawyers and what it takes to become and stay an equity partner (Selected by Stephen Embry) Mayo Clinic to use GenAI and Microsoft CoPilot (Selected by Stephen Embry) 38:55 - RelativityFest

Sep 23, 2023 • 58min
September 22, 2023: DISCO and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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 02:18 - CEO Camara’s Sudden Departure from DISCO Follows Allegations of Sexual Misconduct (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 02:18 - DISCO, Executives Hit With Securities Class Action for Allegedly Misleading Investors Following IPO (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 29:15 - 12 Thoughts on Promises and Challenges of AI in Legal after Yesterday’s AI Summit at Harvard Law School (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) The Legal Industry in the Generative AI Age: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Selected by Niki Black) Law firm hit with class action for data breach and delay in reporting, did not protect opposing parties PII (Selected by Stephen Embry)

Sep 19, 2023 • 1h 12min
September 15, 2023: Special 100th episode: Big trends, small changes, and special guests
Each week, the leading journalists in legal tech choose their top stories of the week to discuss with our other panelists. This week was our 100th episode. To celebrate, we changed the format of the show slightly, and invited everyone who has ever been a panelist to stop by and share One Big Idea (a major trend, story, or shift they’ve noticed in legal tech over the past few years), and One Small Change (a subtle, perhaps overlooked, change that they think will have long-term implications). Today's panelists are: Doug Austin Niki Black Jeffrey Brandt Cassandre Coyer Stephen Embry Caroline Hill David Horrigan Victoria Hudgins Greg Lambert Joshua Lenon Steven Lerner Victor Li Isha Marathe Molly McDonough Jean O’Grady Joe Patrice Julie Sobowale Zach Warren Stephanie Wilkins

Sep 15, 2023 • 60min
September 8, 2023: free NDA automation software, ILTA's first non-American president, 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: 00:00 - Introductions What was discussed by the G100 at ILTA plus ILTA's new president takes over and he's not American for the first time (Selected by Caroline Hill) For Law Firms, Launching Generative AI Chatbots Requires More Than Just Novel Technology (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) oneNDA and SimpleDocs Partner to Launch Free Software to Automate NDA Requests and Negotiations (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) Law Firm Finances Simplified: Selecting legal billing software (Selected by Niki Black) These 9 Stadiums Are Already Using Facial Recognition at Games (Selected by Niki Black)

Sep 1, 2023 • 56min
September 1, 2023: $1B eDiscovery acquisition leads to layoffs, a sanctioned Giuliani, 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: 00:00 - Introductions 03:06 - The "big Reveal" - Reveal acquires Logikcull and IPRO in a $1B deal, then the layoffs start 12:20 - Giuliani sanctioned for providing 'blobs of indecipherable data,' few documents in discovery (Selected by Victor Li) 19:15 - Live Streaming the Trump trial? "If the MAGA hat does not fit, you must acquit." 25:19 - Legal research consolidation is setting off some alarms but this may be temporary (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 37:20 - California High Court Holds AI Vendors Liable for Biased Job Screening (Selected by Niki Black) 44:40 - Law Firms Struggling With Arcane Billing Guidelines Can Look To AI For Relief (Selected by Joe Patrice) 49:43 - Hyperlinked Files as Modern Attachments – The Case Law: eDiscovery Issues (Selected by special guest Doug Austin)

Aug 28, 2023 • 50min
LTW August 25, 2023: Zoom CEO says its hard to build trust over Zoom, and ILTACON post-mortem
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 08:00 - Zoom CEO Says Employees Need to Be in the Office Because It's Hard to Build Trust Over Zoom (Selected by Victor Li) 14:00 - ILTACON Post Mortem Analysis (Selected by all)

Aug 21, 2023 • 57min
LTW August 18, 2023: NC bans docket workflow tools, survey shows holes in law firm office policy, 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: 00:00 - Introductions 05:52 - Chief Judge in EDNC bans PacerPro and other workflow tools (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 17:42 - Never fear, AI guidance for lawyers is near (Selected by Niki Black) 24:19 - Exclusive: New AI Features In Clearbrief Create Hyperlinked Timelines And Allow Users To Query Their Documents (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 30:12 - Thomson Reuters Officially Acquires Casetext for $650 Million as Deal Closes (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 31:20 - Maptician Survey on Office Policies (Selected by Joe Patrice) 44:58 - Succession planning in law firms sucks. Why? (Selected by Stephen Embry)

Aug 11, 2023 • 50min
LTW August 11, 2023: Zoom's rights to your content, AI can snag your keystroke sounds, 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: 00:00 - Introductions 02:40 - Zoom has “perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights” to your content (Selected by Stephen Embry) 12:40 - Don't Write That Confidential Email In Public! AI Can Now Snag Keystroke Sounds With 95 Percent Accuracy (Selected by Joe Patrice) 23:50 - Why We Need a Completely New Type of Laws and Regulations in the Era of AI (Selected by Niki Black) 30:40 - Orrick Trains Summer Associates in Prompt Engineering With New Course From AltaClaro (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 36:00 - Gunderson Dettmer Launches ChatGD; First U.S.-Based Firm To Develop Proprietary Internal Generative AI App (Selected by Bob Ambrogi)

Aug 7, 2023 • 59min
LTW August 7, 2023: ABA blocks op-ed citing 'political challenges,' iManage/ATL cybersecurity report, 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: 00:00 - Introductions 03:11 - Citing ‘Political Challenges,’ ABA Innovation Center Cancels Op-Ed Advocating Regulatory Reform; In An Exclusive, We Have the Piece They Wouldn’t Publish (Selected by Bob Ambrogi) 07:32 - ILTACon trends (Selected by special guest Doug Austin) 15:00 - 44% of Investment Bankers Think They Can Make Lots of Money Off of Attorney Insecurity (Selected by special guest Jef Brandt) 24:05 - Task Force shares principles for responsible use of AI in law (Selected by Stephanie Wilkins) 33:50 - Don't kill the golden goose: survey on 30 years of legal publishing/tech mergers (Selected by Jean O'Grady) 46:23 - iManage/ATL Report on Cybersecurity (Selected by Joe Patrice)