{"id":85954,"date":"2023-03-11T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85954"},"modified":"2023-03-11T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:02:39","slug":"working-to-incorporate-legal-technology-into-your-practice-isnt-just-a-great-business-move-its-required-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/11\/working-to-incorporate-legal-technology-into-your-practice-isnt-just-a-great-business-move-its-required-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Working To Incorporate Legal Technology Into Your Practice Isn’t Just A Great Business Move – It’s Required [Williams]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working To Incorporate Legal Technology Into Your Practice Isn’t Just A Great Business Move – It’s Required<\/a> <\/strong>— from abovethelaw.com by Chris Williams<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Model Rule 1.1<\/a>\u00a0of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct: \u201cA lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client. Competent representation requires the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation reasonably necessary for the representation.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2012, the\u00a0ABA House of Delegates\u00a0voted to amend\u00a0Comment 8\u00a0to Model Rule 1.1 to include explicit guidance on lawyers\u2019 use of technology.<\/p>\n

If Model Rule 1.1 isn\u2019t enough of a motivator to dip your feet in legal tech, maybe paying off that mortgage is. As an extra bit of motivation, it may benefit you to pin the ABA House of Delegate\u2019s call to action on your motivation board.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

While courts still use fax machines, law firms are using AI to tailor arguments for judges<\/strong><\/a> — from cbc.ca by Robyn Schleihauf<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What is different with AI is the scale by which this knowledge is aggregated. While a lawyer who has been before a judge three or four times may have formed some opinions about them, these opinions are based on anecdotal evidence. AI can read the judge’s entire history of decision-making and spit out an argument based on what it finds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The common law has always used precedents, but what is being used here is different \u2014 it’s figuring out how a judge likes an argument to be framed, what language they like using, and feeding it back to them.<\/p>\n

And because the legal system builds on itself \u2014 with judges using prior cases to determine how a decision should be made in the case before them \u2014 these AI-assisted arguments from lawyers could have the effect of further entrenching a judge’s biases in the case law, as the judge’s words are repeated verbatim in more and more decisions. This is particularly true if judges are unaware of their own biases.<\/p>\n

Cutting through the noise: The impact of GPT\/large language models (and what it means for legal tech vendors)<\/strong><\/a> — from legaltechnology.com by\u00a0Caroline Hill<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n

Given that we have spent time over the past few years telling people not to get to overestimate the capability of AI, is this the real deal?<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I think it\u2019s the real thing because if you look at why legal technologies have not had the adoption rate historically, language has always been the problem,\u201d Katz said. \u201cLanguage has been hard for machines historically to work with, and language is core to law. Every road leads to a document, essentially.\u201d
\n…
\nKatz says: \u201cThere are two types of things here. They would call general models GPT one through four, and then there\u2019s domain models, so a legal specific large language model.
\n…
\n\u201cWhat we\u2019re going to see are large-ish, albeit not the largest model that\u2019s heavily domain tailored is going to beat a general model in the same way that a really smart person can\u2019t beat a super specialist. That\u2019s where the value creation and the next generation of legal technology is going to live.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fresh Voices in Legal Tech with Kristen Sonday<\/a> <\/strong>— from legaltalknetwork.com by Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell with Kristen Sonday<\/p>\n

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Working To Incorporate Legal Technology Into Your Practice Isn’t Just A Great Business Move – It’s Required — from abovethelaw.com by Chris Williams Excerpt: According to\u00a0Model Rule 1.1\u00a0of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct: \u201cA lawyer shall provide competent representation to a client. Competent representation requires the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness and preparation reasonably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,851,473,533,825,837,833,830,285,454,195,321,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-canada","category-experimentation","category-law-schools","category-legal-operations","category-legal-reform","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-united-states","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85954"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86025,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85954\/revisions\/86025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}