Brian Kuhn, founder of IBM Watson Legal, addressed key misconceptions around artificial intelligence and cognitive computing in Tuesday’s keynote at ITLACON 2017. Kuhn talked with David Curle, Thomson Reuters director of market intelligence, and shared insights from business-of-law use case workshops IBM conducted with corporate legal departments and law firms over the last two years. …
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ILTA Day 1 Podcast: Artificial Intelligence & Ethics
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics in the legal profession. But while the focus is usually on the technology, AI raises complex ethical issues as well. Chris Mammen, a partner at Hogan Lovells and a faculty member of University of California – Hastings’ Innovation Law Institute, participated in a panel at ILTACON today …
- August 14, 2017
- Leonard Lee
ILTACON 2017 – Vegas Here We Come
This week, legal technology thought leaders and experts, legal industry early adopters and technology-focused vendors will gather to hash out how technology is affecting, supporting and changing the legal industry at ILTACON 2017 (International Legal Technology Association) August 13-17 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. This year, Thomson Reuters hosts four thought leadership sessions on …
- August 13, 2017
- Gretchen DeSutter
ABA TechShow Panel: Keeping up with Legal Technology
Legal technology is often misunderstood. To some, it is regarded as the new computing algorithm, as a simple enhancement in process or everything in between. David Curle, director of Market Intelligence for Thomson Reuters Legal, spoke on this topic last week at ABA TECHSHOW 2017 in Chicago. He began with a review of seven ways …
- March 23, 2017
- Alex Cook
ILTACON 2016 – The ILTACON TV Interview with Eric Laughlin and Elisabeth Hardy
Though the event may have wrapped last week, ILTACON 2016 is still generating news. ILTA has just released its interview (embedded below) with Thomson Reuters own Eric Laughlin, managing director of LMS and the Corporate segment, and Elisabet Hardy, vice president of Product Management. Taped during the show, Candi A. Smith, e-discovery project manager with …
- September 8, 2016
- Alex Cook
Where is Knowledge Management Headed? KM with Kim, episode 3
Where is Knowledge Management headed? How will AI and Big Data impact Knowledge Management? In this edition of “KM with Kim,” Kim Stein, national KM manager for Thomson Reuters explores the future of Knowledge Management. A white paper on “Knowledge Management Software Has Come of Age” can be downloaded here: http://blog.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/law-and-techology/knowledge-management-software-has-come-of-age-now-what/
- September 1, 2016
- Leonard Lee
The 2016 ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey: Follow the Money
At the annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference (ILTACON), underway this week, no discussion of information and insight about the strategy and operations of modern legal organizations would be complete without a discussion of money and how it’s being spent. In cooperation with ILTA, InsideLegal produces an annual survey of legal technology purchasing practices. …
- September 1, 2016
- Alex Cook
ILTACON 2016 Session: A.I. in Law –The State of Play in 2016
During the ILTACON 2016 Session “AI in Law: The State of Play in 2016”, Michael Mills, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Neota Logic, gave compelling insight into the economics, significance and potential of AI in law firms. According to Mills, law firms have traditionally operated on a time-based billing model, simply scaling their work …
- August 31, 2016
- Andrew McLennan-Murray
ILTACON 2016: AI, Smart Contracts, Blockchains & More
What are some of the disruptive technologies facing the legal industry? Ron Friedman of Fireman & Co. led an ILTACON 2016 session on “When Will Blockchains and Smart Contracts Be Important in Legal?” He and Eric Laughlin, managing director, Legal Managed Services, Thomson Reuters, sat down to discuss. [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/legalcurrent/AI__Legal_Technology_with_Eric_Laughlin__Ron_Friedmann.mp3]
- August 30, 2016
- Leonard Lee
ILTACON 2016 Session: Machine Learning as a Service and the Future of AI and the Law
Daniel Katz, associate professor of Law at Chicago Kent College of Law, opened his Day One ILTACON session by assuring attendees that the days of robot overlords are still a bit further off. “I’m not about robots replacing lawyers, I’m about placing robots where they aren’t now,” Katz remarked. Lawyers, technologists and futurists have long …
- August 29, 2016
- Alex Cook