Toward the end of 2018 a global research and advisory firm, Gartner, ran a survey of more than 3,000 CIOs. The purpose was to understand the trends in digital commerce. The findings provided a comprehensive overview of...more
Technology and services firms within the legal industry are experiencing growth in private investment from both VC, PE, and M&A. While this can be very profitable for the firms involved, it can create challenges for the law...more
In late February 2019 the AI world enjoyed a viral moment when a machine learning framework was used to create a website called “this person does not exist”. Created using generative adversarial networks (GANs) made open...more
Twenty years ago, there was a huge gulf between China and the United States on AI research. While the U.S. was witnessing sustained growth in research efforts by both public institutions and private sectors, China was still...more
3/11/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Big Data ,
Blockchain ,
China ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Foreign Investment ,
Foreign Policy ,
Legal Technology ,
Virtual Litigation
Within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) there are a number of techniques that can be deployed for the purpose of information retrieval and understanding the relationships between documents. The growth in...more
What do you say if somebody asks you what the algorithm is doing with your data? How does it learn? What is it looking at and why? Defensible use of AI is important, whether during litigation or through some other application...more
When it comes to innovation, there is often too much to do and too little time to act. Across sectors, companies are experiencing a significant rise in demand for innovative products and services. Legal teams want products...more
The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor.
Quantum computing is a beautiful fusion of quantum physics...more
K. Anders Ericsson was a Swedish psychologist who spent much of his academic career researching the psychological nature of expertise and human performance. He studied expertise across a variety of domains to understand how...more
For every stakeholder, AI should feel simple. If it does not feel simple, then there are likely problems somewhere in the delivery. This could be issues with communication, challenges to implementation, the wrong...more
The next decade will witness the introduction of AI regulation at both the Federal and State level. Much of this regulation will focus on the use of autonomous and self-driving cars. In 2016 the Obama administration...more
Never has a robust information governance solution been more important than today. The explosion in new and varied form of data has long required a more sophisticated approach to understanding and managing data. If 2020...more
The past five years have witnessed a steady growth in both the testing and application of AI solutions for both legal ops and litigation teams. Whilst many of these applications are early stage, some are beginning to see...more
In March 2016, Lee Sedol, the Korean Go 18-time world champion, played and lost a five-game match against DeepMind’s AlphaGo, a Go-playing program that used deep learning networks to evaluate board positions and possible...more
Now we are at the end of 2020, what does your 2021 look like? Putting aside the emotions of 2020, what are the priorities that you want to set? How will this impact the people around you?
This year I’ve been fortunate to...more
The Luddites were a secret oath-based organization of English textile workers in the 19th century, a radical faction which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest. The Luddite movement emerged during the harsh...more
Throughout the eDiscovery process there are critical moments where mishandled data or sloppy analysis could derail the entire effort and result in disastrous outcomes. The EDRM model is our best attempt to develop a coherent...more
Covid-19 has forced eDiscovery service providers (SP) to solve data security challenges whilst employees work from remote locations with no clear end-date in sight. This has created challenges toward maintaining a secure...more
Whatever the type of M&A transaction, there is always the possibility that information may slip through the cracks. The growth in size and type of data exchanging hands throughout this process means that a more robust method...more
10/29/2020
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Division ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Discovery ,
Due Diligence ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Information Governance ,
Mergers
Litigation for the claimant is money to be won. This is the strongest business case for improving legal data intelligence. Creating workflow efficiencies and reducing legal spend are important insomuch as we continue to think...more
Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to law firms and corporate legal teams worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. Realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work...more