Key Discovery Points: AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals… But Not So Fast!
Key Discovery Points: Timing Sweet Spots for Spoliation Motions
Key Discovery Points: Should Hyperlinked Files Be Treated as Modern Attachments?
How Attorneys’ Views on AI Are Impacting eDiscovery
Key Discovery Points: Get Your Objections In Early – and Keep Your Filings Succinct
Why Lawyers Can't Ignore eDiscovery
The AI Trust Test in eDiscovery
eDiscovery Tips: Helpful Questions to Ask Your Clients
30-Minute Workshop: Resume Clinic for EDiscovery Project Managers
Examining E-Discovery in Competition Law
eDiscovery for the Rest of Us: Why Small Firm eDiscovery Matters
Sitting with the C-Suite: Trial Teams – Narrowing Data through Centric Search
Although occasional murmurings about general AI reached the public during the 2010s, it was ChatGPT’s November ‘22 entrance onto the global stage that officially introduced the world to artificial intelligence....more
Recently, while preparing for an upcoming panel presentation at the ASU Arkfeld eDiscovery, Law and Technology Conference on March 11 and 12 (Learn more about the conference HERE), my co-panelists and I were discussing...more
The year 2025 has brought us closer than ever to the dawn of artificial general intelligence, with AI systems now capable of reasoning on par with humans—or even surpassing them in specific domains. In this article, I examine...more
ACEDS is launching its Third Annual Artificial Intelligence Survey. This year the survey is sponsored by Secretariat and ACEDS is proud to be working once again with Rich Finkelman and his new team to deliver insights to the...more
As some readers will know, we have spent many hours working with Generative AI-based Large Language Models (“LLMs”) like GPT (aka ChatGPT) and Claude. We use both in our DiscoveryPartner® software to summarize and synthesize...more
Complex investigations are on the rise with investigators being asked to do more with less, therefore needing to gain efficiency to handle workloads. A complex investigation can be triggered by a litigation event, government...more
Generative AI is transforming the landscape of legal technology, offering unprecedented opportunities to automate tasks and streamline complex workflows. Yet, designing AI tools that truly meet the needs of legal...more
The American Bar Association (ABA) and several state bars have recently issued guidelines on the ethical use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in legal practice. As AI tools like LLM-based chatbots become more...more
A computer capable of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), if ever created, will be the greatest invention in history. It will be far more transformative than the printing press or the wheel. Unlike narrow AI, which excels...more
Bill Gates has insider knowledge on the future of generative AI. He predicts there will be ‘two more turns of the crank’ on scaling, with the next ‘big frontier‘ being ‘metacognition.’ Gates describes ChatGPT’s metacognitive...more
One of the most important emergent intelligence abilities of OpenAI’s ChatGPT is its bizarre ability to split into different sub-personalities, like different minds, and then speak with each other. They can even be made to...more
The Eleventh Circuit published a ground breaking Concurring Opinion on May 28, 2024 by Judge Kevin C. Newsom on the use of generative AI to help decide contract interpretation issues. Snell v. United Specialty Ins. Co., 2024...more
This blog considers some of the ethical issues of competence that arise when a lawyer or law firm uses generative AI to assist in rendering services. Prior to the advent of artificial intelligence, the legal profession...more
A first of its kind experiment testing use of AI found a 40% increase in quality and 12% increase in productivity. The tests involved 18 different realistic tasks assigned to 244 different consultants in the Boston Consulting...more
The digital age has transformed the legal landscape, and nowhere is this change more evident than in the realm of eDiscovery. Mountains of data now hold the key to legal battles, demanding sophisticated tools to navigate this...more
The last few years have seen rapid advancements in technological solutions across industries in response to the global pandemic and increasingly remote-friendly work culture. The legal industry is no different, as many...more
This article describes an experiment using OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 to do appellate work, usually considered the most intellectually challenging area of the law. My hypothesis was that AI was already capable of acting as an...more
[EDRM Editor’s Note: This article was first published September 27, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Michael Berman for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of the author.] “Artificial Intelligence (AI)...more
DefCon’s AI Village - Sven Cattell, shown above, is the founder of a key event at DefCon 31, the AI Village. The Village attracted thousands of people eager to take part in its Hack The Future challenge. At the Village I...more
You’ve probably heard the buzz around AI in recent years. But it’s not just a buzzword or an idea confined to the realms of science fiction. At least, not any longer. Whether it’s ChatGPT, virtual assistants, NLP chatbots,...more
The report by well-known consulting firm McKinsey, The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier (June 2023), provides reliable information and analysis on the jobs potential of ChatGPT and other...more
[EDRM Editor’s Note: This article was first published here on June 6, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Rob Robinson, editor and managing director of ComplexDiscovery, for permission to republish.] [ComplexDiscovery Background...more
Advances in artificial intelligence, including predictive coding and continuous machine learning, are creating opportunities to make eDiscovery more efficient and more effective. Yet, according to eDiscovery Today’s 2022...more
I recently recognized the 10-year anniversary of now retired New York Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck issued the ruling in the Da Silva Moore case that was the first court approval of predictive coding in the US (or anywhere...more
Since the dawn of modern litigation, attorneys have grappled with finding the most efficient and strategic method of producing discovery. However, the shift to computers and electronically stored information (ESI) within...more