Recently in one of my online lawyers groups, an attorney lamented that her state bar association had made self-help forms available for family law litigants at no cost and in addition, had started conducting free trainings to help users complete the forms. The attorney reported that many of her family law attorney colleagues are up
Last week, the State Bar of California released for public comment several proposals for regulatory reforms developed by the California Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services. Designed to spur innovation and expand access to justice options, the task force proposed three key reforms
Last Monday and Tuesday, online behemoth Amazon held its fifth annual Prime
Day, a shopping
holiday of a sort where Amazon
offers exclusive bargains and deals to Amazon Prime customers. The benefits of
Prime Day are self-evident: Amazon can show appreciation for existing customers
by offering deep discounts while racking up sales – to
If the length of this post has shown anything, it’s that AI
in legal research and law practice is an enormous and wide-reaching topic that
is rapidly changing. Moreover, while large firms have the resources to
understand and leverage AI tools, solo and small firms are at a disadvantage
because that they lack the time
Generally, today’s AI tools for solo and small law firms break down into three categories: (1) legal research and issue spotting; (2) law practice automation and marketing tools and (3) substantive legal issues arising out of the use of algorithmic, AI-driven platforms in legal matters ranging from criminal defense, employment, insurance, custody defense and others
Let me begin this series on AI in Legal Research and Law
Practice with a foundational discussion of what artificial intelligence is and
why it’s such a hot topic right now.
John McCarthy, a computer scientist credited as the father
of artificial intelligence defined AI is “the science and engineering of
making intelligent machines” –
Earlier this week, I lead a roundtable discussion on
Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research and Law Practice at the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL)
which took place in Washington D.C. I was grateful for the invitation
from @robtruman, the law
librarian at the Lewis & Clark Law School because the event forced me
Five years ago, life irrevocably changed when I learned that
my beloved
husband was diagnosed with brain
cancer. In the few seconds that it took the doctor to convey the news, my
optimistic plans for my empty-nest future with my husband — working on
law-tech projects together (there wasn’t a computer language that my husband
Post Update 7/8/19 noon: Apparently I spoke to soon in recommending a purchase of Marketing to the Affluent prior to reading it. I’ve been receiving some negative feedback from those who bought the book both about Kennedy’s political views as well as the organization of the material in the book and its value. I’ll read
A recent study
from Pew Internet found that 37 percent of U.S. adults mostly
use a smartphone to access the Internet. That share has nearly doubled since
2013, when only 19 percent of Americans identified their phone as their primary
advice for going online. So why has the number of phone-internet
connection increased? Forty-five percent