Expanding Fault Lines in Legal Technology This article was originally published by the American Bar Association’s Law Practice Division’s publication, Law Technology Today in The Professional Infrastructure Series — Article I. This article is the first in a four-part series examining what may be a growing fracture within legal technology itself: a separation between technologies…
ABA Law Technology Today Publishes First Article in Professional Infrastructure Series ABA Law Technology Today has published the first article in a four-part series from TheFormTool on legal technology, professional responsibility, and control. The article, “Expanding Fault Lines in Legal Technology,” examines a growing tension in legal technology: the profession’s increasing dependence on systems optimized…
Who Controls Your Client Data During Document Automation? A Practical Question Before Any Automation Project A professional document can contain far more than words on a page. A lawyer may be working with client names, case facts, financial terms, draft clauses, settlement details, or confidential instructions. An accountant may be preparing documents that include tax…
Scaling Expertise – Article 1 Every Firm Has One Person It Can’t Afford to Lose Every professional organization has one. The attorney everyone consults before filing an unusual motion. The partner who knows exactly how a complex transaction should be structured. The litigator who has refined an argument through years of experience. The assistant who…
Add Real Christmas Cheer: Precision, Productivity, and the Tools Lawyers Deserve December tends to make lawyers reflective. Court calendars quiet down, inboxes slow just enough to allow thinking, and the year’s accumulated frustrations come into view: the documents that took too long, the numbering that fell apart at the worst time, the tools that promised…
The Human Advantage Why AI Still Needs Will Always Need a Supervisor Artificial Intelligence is fast becoming a fixture in legal drafting—from contract clauses to court filings. But as the tools evolve, a hard truth remains: AI doesn’t know what it’s saying. And it certainly doesn’t know what it means. Which is why lawyers—real lawyers—must…
Scaling Artificial Intelligence A zettabyte is 270 bytes or 1 billion terabytes, which is 1 billion gigabytes History of Data Six years ago we commented to a Webinar audience, “2,300 years ago, Macedonian information workers gathered all the knowledge in the world into the great Library of Alexandria. Its 200,000 books were made available to…
Most of us have seen thousands of articles on Artificial Intelligence. As always aspiring “experts” in document assembly and automation, we’ve been required to read far too many of them. Fair is fair, so we thought it would be interesting to ask the leading large language model AI what it thinks of the firms in…
. We’ve named the new Artificial Intelligence helper in the Diagnostic Portal our Diagnostic Assistant. We’re starting to think this technology may have a real future helping people filter huge amounts of information to find the specific bits and pieces they’re looking for. Our Diagnostic Assistant is being used by customers every day, is learning…
Smart or Slick? In our last newsletter we predicted that the effects of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) chat bots on the legal profession will be substantially less than the current hype. Last week, three researchers at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley reported that the “intelligence” demonstrated by leading large language model services (“artificial intelligence” agents, in this…