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The Shape of Justice: How Topological Network Mapping Could Transform Legal Practice

What if justice had a shape — not rigid scales or a blindfolded figure, but a living, dynamic map? Imagine causation as a multidimensional space, where influence, control, and responsibility could be mapped across a moving...more

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Criminal Conviction Reversed After State Failed to Timely & Fully Disclose its Use of a Type of Artificial Intelligence

“After a one-day trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, a jury found Craig Donnell Johnson guilty of robbery. Before trial, Mr. Johnson had filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that the State had withheld...more

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Epiphanies or Illusions? Testing AI’s Ability to Find Real Knowledge Patterns – Part Two

The moment of truth had arrived. Were ChatGPT’s insights genuine epiphanies, valuable new connections across knowledge domains with real practical and theoretical implications, or were they merely convincing illusions? Had...more

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Will Courts “Search, Forward” with eDiscovery Case Law on AI?

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Editor’s Note: In this contributed article, Phil Favro draws sharp parallels between today’s artificial intelligence (AI) adoption anxieties and the technology-assisted review (TAR) debates of the early 2010s, offering a...more

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From Search Hits to Answers: How GenAI Solved Complex Discovery Challenges at HKA’s “Hands On” AI Program in London

Picture this: Six teams of senior legal professionals from the world’s largest law firms and investigation groups, each armed with nothing but a natural language question and access to 14,000 documents from one of Britain’s...more

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Epiphanies or Illusions? Testing AI’s Ability to Find Real Knowledge Patterns – Part One

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

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The $20 Test: What a Parking Lot Taught Me About AI and Legal Judgment

Every day, lawyers and judges the world over are asking ChatGPT and other AI tools to help them reason through complex ethical dilemmas, draft arguments, and make strategic decisions....more

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Panel of Experts for Everyone About Anything – Part Three: Demo of 4o as Panel Driver on New Jobs

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

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Document Content vs. Metadata in eDiscovery AI: A Clarification of Scope, Access, and Accuracy

Abstract - This article addresses a critical source of confusion in legal technology: the conflation of document content and metadata in generative AI tools for eDiscovery. Document content is the text and visual data you see...more

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Avoiding the Third Rail of Legal AI: Don’t Let the Machine Think for You

Why professional responsibility demands we use AI as a tool—not a substitute—for legal thinking and decision-making. AI is transforming legal practice at breakneck speed. Generative AI tools promise unprecedented efficiency...more

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The Future is Now: Why Trial Lawyers and Judges Should Embrace Generative AI Now and How to Do It Safely and Productively

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

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Case Study: Practical Testing for Effectively Organizing Documents with GenAI Review

This case study outlines a practical framework for evaluating Generative AI (“GenAI”) review for organizing documents in discovery using Relativity’s aiR for Review....more

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Chambers Guidance: Using AI Large Language Models (LLMs) Wisely and Ethically

Tomorrow, I’m delivering a talk to the Texas Second Court of Appeals (Fort Worth), joined by my friend, Lynne Liberato of Houston. We will address LLM use in chambers and in support of appellate practice, where Lynne is a...more

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Henry Kissinger and His Last Book – GENESIS: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

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

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From Prompters to Partners: The Rise of Agentic AI in Law and Professional Practice

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

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AI Companionship and Machine Intuition: Rethinking Relationships in the Age of Artificial Empathy

ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: This featured article from ComplexDiscovery OÜ provides an examination of one of the most compelling sessions from the 2025 Dublin Tech Summit, where AI transcended analytics and delved into...more

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[Webinar] Ask the Experts: Live Demo + Interactive Q&A on Exterro Intelligence Capabilities - June 18th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Curious about how Exterro Intelligence features can transform your legal processes? Join our product experts for an exclusive live demo showcasing real-world applications of our latest AI-powered capabilities that can improve...more

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AI Can Improve Great Lawyers—But It Can’t Replace Them

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

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Technology-Assisted Review Was Litigation’s First Encounter With AI

While the use of artificial intelligence for drafting legal pleadings is a relatively new phenomenon, the deployment of artificial intelligence in pretrial discovery of electronically stored information is not. In fact, the...more

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Bots Battle for Supremacy in Legal Reasoning – Part Five: Reigning Champion, Orion, ChatGPT-4.5 Versus Scorpio, ChatGPT-o3

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

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Dario Amodei Warns of the Danger of Black Box AI that No One Understands

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

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Cybersecurity’s Role in Legal Transcription

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Legal transcription services play a vital role in legal matters, ensuring that live oral arguments and other audio or video content are fully accessible to all stakeholders in text. When managing transcription...more

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Zero to One: A Visual Guide to Understanding the Top 22 Dangers of AI

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

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Enhancing Discovery with Alchemy Textract: How AI-Powered OCR Captures Handwritten Notes and Poorly Scanned Documents

In today’s legal landscape, investigations and discovery often involve processing thousands of complex documents. Traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology struggles with the varied document types legal...more

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Bar Battle of the Bots – Part Four: Birth of Scorpio

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

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