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Legal’s AI rocket ship will be manned (book review) (232)

By Dan Currell on May 9, 2021

Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Book Reviews, Legal Innovation, Legal Productivity Problem, LegalTech

Lawyers are trained to be good at what machines can’t do.

Will the world still need lawyers once AI gets really good?

The short answer is yes—and I believe it will still be yes no matter how good AI gets. My view is not universally accepted, so I will need to lay it out, and that will involve some claims about what humans are and whether a machine can ever be like that. This will shed considerable light on what lawyers essentially do, and help us to see how machines can help us to be better lawyers.
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Innovation as a Service and the Maker’s Matrix (128)

By Anusia Gillespie on December 8, 2019

Posted in Legal Innovation, LegalTech, Talent

Law firm innovation takes many forms. We need a tool to de-risk and demystify the process.

The above graphic is the Maker’s Matrix^©, which is a tool I created to more efficiently categorize, prioritize, and resource innovation projects. This is because innovation in law firms is a nascent field with lots of hype and headlines but remarkably little structure. See, e.g., Bruce MacEwen, “Who’s your Chief Innovation Officer, ” Adam Smith, Esq., Nov. 13, 2019. That’s okay, though. I’m happy for the opportunity to figure it out.
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