In case you missed any of the top stories of 2023 I have compiled a list of the “most read” stories of 2023. Here are links to the most popular Dewey B Strategic stories of 2023:
Breaking-News-Thomson-Reuters and Microsoft Announce Microsoft 360 copilot partnership
On Wednesday night, Casetext continued to celebrate the launch of their Generative AI platform, CoCounsel with a special “Invitation only” event during LegalWeek in New York. CoCounsel is powered by OpenAI’s GPT 4 and was the first AI technology to successfully pass a bar exam.
The event included a demo of a new CoCounsel workflow for transactional lawyers called “Market Check,” a brief keynote by Stephen Gillers, Elihu Root Professor of Law Emeritus at NYU, a lively panel discussion about the legal business impact and ethical challenges of AI.
What is Market check? Pablo Arredondo, CoFounder and Chief Innovation Officer at Casetext introduced a live demo of Market Check. This new workflow uses the CoCounsel generative AI technology to analyze a corpus of transactional documents and identify the “market standard” for specific clause types. Currently Bloomberg Law and Intelligize both offer “what’s market” analysis on publicly available documents and enable lawyers to compare one or several draft documents with a market standard. Market check could enable a firm to analyze a custom corpus of internal and/or external documents and ask CoCounsel to deliver results in response to “plain English” questions.Continue Reading Casetext CoCounsel Event – Professor Stephen Gillers Keynote Declares “The end of legal services as we know it.”
Legal Tech insiders knew that something big was “cooking” at Casetext. Yesterday Casetext announced the Launch of Co-Counsel, which is described as the first AI Legal Assistant. The launch included some notable media appearances : a live demo on tv and a video interview Product Briefing with Nikki Shaver of Legal TechHub.
In another first
On September 15th I presented the results of my “2022 Dewey B Strategic Start Stop Survey” at an HBR-sponsored LINKS program. I co-
presented the results with HBR Managing Director Kris Martin. The Dewey B Strategic “Start Stop Survey” was launched in 2013 but was suspended during the pandemic. The 2022 survey was intended
One of the most exciting panels at the 2022 ILTA Conference (What is Natural Language Processing and How can I Use It?) showcased
dramatic breakthroughs in neural net technology to natural language processing (NLP). Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder / Chief Innovation Officer, Casetext provided an intensely passionate tutorial on the history of AI through the centuries.
Law Schools in the United States have been historically focused on teaching students using caselaw research tools and techniques. In
real practice, lawyers need to add a few more tools to their toolkit. During the past decade, there has been an explosion of new tools, powered by algorithms and analytics which streamline a variety of
amount of time it takes lawyers to draft a motion or brief by serving up the arguments and standards appropriate to the motion type in a specific jurisdiction. Compose also included a powerful new search functionality called “Parallel Search,” which was the first legal research tool to leverage breakthrough technology called transformer-based neural nets. Parallel Search proved to be so popular with attorneys that in June of 2020 Casetext made that search capability available as a stand-alone product and an upgrade to their Casetext research platform. More than a decade ago, major legal research platforms Lexis and Westlaw freed their subscribers from Boolean search by introducing natural language search. But freedom from Boolean search did amount of time it takes lawyers to draft a motion or brief by serving up the arguments and standards appropriate to the motion type in a specific jurisdiction. Compose also included a powerful new search functionality called “Parallel Search,” which was the first legal research tool to leverage breakthrough technology called transformer-based neural nets. Parallel Search proved to be so popular with attorneys that in June of 2020 Casetext made that search capability available as a stand-alone product and an upgrade to their Casetext research platform. More than a decade ago, major legal research platforms Lexis and Westlaw freed their subscribers from Boolean search by introducing natural language search. But freedom from Boolean search didThe 2020-21 Dewey B Strategic What’s Hot and What’s Not Survey included a series of questions related to the COVID-19 Crisis.
COVID Resources Every legal publisher launched some kind of COVID related legal resource. Many of these resources were made publicly available outside the paywall. These products included toolkits, trackers, practical guidance, advisories, checklists, legislative
Workflow Tools. 2020 was marked by significant activity in the legal workflow/drafting space. There were eight products that came to my attention during 2020. Three of the eight workflow products fall into the Brief analysis category. Casetext invented the brief analysis space with the launch of the first brief analysis product CARA in 2016. So