Blue J Legal had a small booth at the American Association of Law Libraries conference in Washington, DC this summer. Yet… 
they had one of the most impressive new offerings in the exhibit hall. Tax Foresight can predict the likely outcome of a tax controversy with at least 90 percent accuracy. The product uses AI
Thomson Reuters Launches Westlaw Edge Quick Check Raising the Bar for A.I. DrivenBrief and Citation Insights
Today Thomson Reuters is announcing the release of a new AI enabled enhancement for WESTLAW 
Edge. Quick Check enables a lawyer to “drop and drag” a brief or motion into the Quick Check AI portal and retrieve a thorough analysis of the cited or missing authority. The Quick Check process takes one minute on average. Michael Dahn, SVP Product Management, Carol Jo Lechtenberg, Westlaw Product Management and T0nya Custis, Sr. Director Research Center for AI and Cognitive Computing hosted a webinar demonstration earlier this week for members of the legal press which I attended.
Quick Check use cases include: Updating an old brief, quality checking a working draft and performing final check before submitting a brief to a court. Lawyers can also examine an opponent’s brief and
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Lawyer Use of Transformational Technologies Will Double by 2022: Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Report
Today Wolters Kluwer is releasing the 2019 Future Ready Lawyer Survey. The study was conducted between December 10, 2018 and Jan 13, 2019. It is based on interviews with 700 lawyers in law firms legal departments and business service firms across the US and 10 European countries. The report also includes insights from legal
Casemaker Announces Access to Vincent the vLex AI Tool: Free Trial and Special Pricing
Today Casemaker is announcing an expanded relationship with vLex a global legal research provider. Members of the Casemaker Bar Association Consortium will have an opportunity to get access to vLex intelligent
legal research assistant, Vincent. Several months ago I wrote about the very unique functionality in vLex’s Vincent. It is the only legal research product
Lights, Cameras, Robots — Amazed and Amused at SCALL Institute On Artificial Intelligence — Lively Video Montages
It is now a given that what we think of as “AI” is simply software which has not yet become so pervasive that it is baked into our everyday experience.. Yet AI retains a whiff of mystery which begs to be explored and illustrated through artistic and scientific videos which can range from absurdist to
Lexis Prepares to Launch a Research Bot – And a CourtLink Makeover
Two years ago Lexis launched Lexis Answers which leverages AI to deliver responses to natural language research
queries with a declarative statement of law with supporting citations. Since that time there have been intriguing references in the legal tech press to the development of Lexis chatbots. Lexis pulled back the curtain on their new chatbox “Lexis Research Assistant” at a press event held during LegalWeek in New York last month.
What If Alexa Went to Law School?
Serena Wellen who works at Lexis Labs introduced her demo of the bot with the question: “What if legal research was
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Casetext CARA Adds Intelligent Filters To Enhance Research Precision
We are all on the path to research Nirvana. Along the way we meet the true believers — many of them are my fellow librarians others are 
legal tech entrepreneurs. I recently had a chat with Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Legal Research Officer at Casetext – an intrepid fellow traveler and legal research thought leader. Arredondo is passionate about citations, algorithms and optimizing the legal research experience. Casetext has recently enhanced their algorithms to identify valuable new caselaw features and elements including: motions, causes of actions and party type which can be used as filters to narrow and focus a search.
Arredondo provided insights into the importance of these new features: “Optimal legal research systems must enable attorneys to navigate the common law along dimensions that matter. Motion at
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Join Me at Upcoming Events at Legal Tech, ARK and SCALL: Tech Adoption, Innovation, Analytics and AI
Thanks to ARK, ALM, PLLIP and SCALL for inviting me to speak at upcoming events:
Panelist, From Conversation to Conversion: Getting Lawyers to Use New Tools, Legal Tech, New York, NY, January 31, 2019.
Moderator, Start It or Stop It? Jump Starting Initiatives and Innovation in 2019. PLLIP webinar, Feb 6
Can vLex Crack U. S. Market With Vincent AI Research Assistant, A Foreign Law Research Platform and SaaS Tools?
vLex has been getting a lot of buzz for launching a “drop and drag” research assistant to compete with Casetext’s CARA and Ross’s Eva. Yes vLex has launched an AI enabled research assistant called Vincent which has similarities to the competitors. Vincent is the ONLY “legal assistant” that works in multiple languages. International legal research
Practice Innovations: AI, KM and Office Design, Experience Management, Collaboration and Professional Development for Staff
A new issue of Thomson Reuters Practice Innovations quarterly newsletter has been released. This issue contains articles written by a roster of legal innovation and law firm 
management thought leaders including Sylvia Coulter, Sally Gonzalez, Toby Brown, V. Mary Abraham, Mark Medici and Sharon Abrahams. The full issue is available here.
- Accelerating adoption of experience