Humans are inherently pattern-seeking creatures. Our ancestors depended upon recognizing recurring patterns in nature to survive and thrive, such as the changing of seasons, the migration of animals and the cycles of plant...more
8/1/2025
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Generative AI is not just disrupting industries—it is redefining what it means to trust, govern, and be accountable in the digital age. At the forefront of this evolution stands a new, critical line of employment: AI...more
7/23/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Compliance ,
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Ethics ,
EU ,
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Risk Mitigation ,
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This is the conclusion to the article, Panel of Experts for Everyone About Anything – Part One and Part Two. Here we give another demonstration of the software described in Part One. Part Two provided a demonstration where...more
7/16/2025
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This is a continuation of the article, Panel of Experts for Everyone About Anything – Part One. Here in Part Two we give a demonstration of the software described in Part One. In the process we learn about new job types...more
7/14/2025
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Software ,
Technology
Introduction: The Urgency and Promise of Generative AI in Law - The unprecedented rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) worldwide presents the legal profession with a pivotal opportunity for...more
6/27/2025
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Document Review ,
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Evidence ,
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Judges ,
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Imagine instantly accessing a room full of top experts ready to respond to your toughest questions, brainstorm creative solutions, or critique your new ideas, all without spending a dime. Whether you’re a seasoned attorney...more
6/26/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Discovery ,
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Electronically Stored Information ,
Expert Testimony ,
Innovation ,
Innovative Technology ,
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Litigation Strategies ,
Professional Development ,
Software
Henry A. Kissinger co-wrote his last book at the age of 100 with tech giants Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie. Genesis shows that what we do next with AI could be our greatest triumph or our gravest mistake. Here I review the...more
6/18/2025
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Foreign Policy ,
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Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
Popular ,
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Introduction: Beyond the Prompt Era - The legal profession is undergoing a profound shift. For decades, the integration of computing in law was incremental—word processors, databases, legal research platforms....more
6/9/2025
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Automation Systems ,
Discovery ,
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Law Firm Ownership ,
Law Practice Management ,
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Professional Development ,
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Technology-Assisted Review
The rise of legal AI has sparked a familiar fear: that our hard-won expertise might be absorbed into machines. That lawyers will be off-loaded—our reasoning encoded, commodified, and reduced to prompts. That we’ll be...more
5/30/2025
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Discovery ,
Document Review ,
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Law Practice Management ,
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Machine Learning ,
Professional Development ,
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Will the challenger, Scorpion, defeat the reigning champ, Orion? Or will Orion keep his title as the world’s best AI legal reasoner? Read about my experiment and find out....more
5/21/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Bar Exam ,
Bots ,
Discovery ,
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Innovative Technology ,
Legal Ethics ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning
Dario Amodei, Chief Scientist and CEO of Anthropic, has written another important article you should read: The Urgency of Interpretability. He is very concerned that scientists have created a powerful new technology that no...more
5/15/2025
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Governance Standards ,
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Machine Learning ,
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Risk Management ,
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Transparency
When zero becomes one, possibility leaps out of the void, as Peter Thiel champions in his book, Zero to One. But what happens when the entrepreneur is foolish and pushes his scientists to open a Pandora’s box? What happens...more
5/8/2025
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Bias ,
Deep Fake ,
Discovery ,
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Risk Management
The AI bot battles rage on. This round, we test OpenAI’s newest contender, released April 16, 2025: ChatGPT o3. Not to be confused with its leaner sibling—ChatGPT o3-mini, which debuted in January. When we tested that old...more
4/30/2025
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Bar Exam ,
Bots ,
Contract Disputes ,
Discovery ,
Dispute Resolution ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
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Innovative Technology ,
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Machine Learning ,
Software
If you’re afraid of artificial intelligence, you’re not alone, and you’re not wrong to be cautious. AI is no longer science fiction. It’s embedded in the apps we use, the decisions that affect our lives, and the tools...more
4/24/2025
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Bias ,
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Deep Fake ,
Discovery ,
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Privacy Concerns ,
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been immersed in the necessary but time-consuming task of updating my Custom GPTs—AI tools I designed using OpenAI’s GPT Builder platform. Some are private, tailored to my work as a lawyer,...more
4/21/2025
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Machine Learning ,
Professional Development ,
Software
George Orwell warned us in his dark masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four how effortlessly authoritarian regimes could erase inconvenient truths by tossing records into a “memory hole”—a pneumatic chute leading directly to...more
4/1/2025
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Censorship ,
Data Preservation ,
Data Retention ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Information Governance ,
Internet ,
Journalism ,
Online Platforms ,
Social Media ,
Technology
Two AI heavyweights step into the ring: ChatGPT 4o, the reigning champion of fluency and speed, and the new challenger, ChatGPT 4.5, boasting an upgraded intellect and sharper wit. But which one is truly the best? To find...more
3/13/2025
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Discovery ,
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The battle continues. In Part One, we examined how six advanced AI reasoning models from OpenAI and Google tackled a real Bar Exam essay question. Some impressed, others faltered, and one emerged as the clear winner—ChatGPT...more
3/10/2025
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Bar Exam ,
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Law Students ,
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Legal Writing ,
Machine Learning ,
Professional Development
The legal world is watching AI with both excitement and skepticism. Can today’s most advanced reasoning models think like a lawyer? Can they dissect complex fact patterns, apply legal principles, and construct a persuasive...more
2/28/2025
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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
2/21/2025
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Technology-Assisted Review
DeepSeek’s Deep-Think feature takes a small but meaningful step toward building trust between users and AI. By displaying its reasoning process step by step, Deep-Think allows users to see how the AI forms its conclusions,...more
2/4/2025
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Transparency
DeepSeek, a startup AI company owned by a Chinese hedge fund, which is in turn owned by a young AI whiz-kid, Liang Wenfeng, claims that its newly released V-3 software-R1 was trained inexpensively and without using NVIDIA’s...more
1/31/2025
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China ,
Competition ,
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Export Controls ,
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Investment ,
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Market Manipulation ,
National Security ,
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Open Source Software ,
Popular ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
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Technology Sector
The rise of artificial intelligence has evoked both awe and apprehension. AI’s capabilities are undeniably astonishing. It can converse and respond to us like a human, answer questions—often with impressive accuracy—write...more
1/29/2025
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Introduction - The year 2024 marked a pivotal time in artificial intelligence, where aspirations transformed into concrete achievements, cautions became more urgent, and the distinction between human and machine began to...more
1/14/2025
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Life Sciences ,
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In the history of technological revolutions, there are moments that challenge not only our understanding of what is possible but the very nature of reality itself. Google’s latest refinement to its quantum computer, Willow,...more
1/8/2025
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Google ,
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