FROM LEGALWEEK 2024 : A chat with Isha Marathe of ALM Media
14 February 2024 – As a writer and journalist and card-carrying member of the Foreign Press Association, I often like to see how my fellows cover news events and industries
Continue readingHewlett Packard and Autonomy: search … and $4 Billion later
13 February 2024 – More than a decade ago, Hewlett-Packard acquired Autonomy plc. Then it blew up as Hewlett-Packard announced that it was taking an $8.8 billion accounting charge after claiming
Continue readingFROM LEGALWEEK 2024 : A chat with Ron Friedmann of Gartner
Generative AI : what corporate in-house is doing versus what BigLaw is doing, how you need to adopt the right motivations and frameworks for lawyers to truly embrace this new tech … and lots more 13
Continue readingNotes from LEGALWEEK 2024 “Better Call GPT” – comparing Large Language Models against lawyers and legaltech providers
12 February 2024 — As we noted in our first post-event analysis, AI dominated LEGALWEEK 2024. But, as we also noted there was one good thing: the “AI hype buzz” was muted, at least
Continue readingNotes from LEGALWEEK 2024 and the Berlin symposiums: “Prompt Engineering” – the monster emerging from the cybersecurity attack den
10 February 2024 — Last week we split the media team to cover events in two places: the cybersecurity symposiums and military intelligence conference in Berlin, Germany and LEGALWEEK 2024 in New
Continue readingFROM LEGALWEEK 2024 – A chat with Ryan Costello of ProSearch: eDiscovery in the EU, the advance of AI, and more
ProSearch : a partner that brings efficiency to the legal process and spend 9 February 2024 – After I had semi-retired from my legal career and media producer career in the digital media industry,
Continue readingON THE ROAD TO LEGALTECH NYC 2024 : The AI benchmarks are changing
What the legal industry really needs are specific legal-orientated assessments carried out in the specific context in which the AI system would be deployed. That just might arrive in 2024/2025. 29
Continue readingWhy Americans want part-time jobs again
3 JUNE 2023 – – Interesting piece in Time magazine this week: At first, getting laid off from her job at a marketing tech firm in June of 2022 was shocking and depressing for Sam Popp, 33,
Continue readingFor the eDiscovery practitioner community, a love story
“Love means never hiding your assets” 22 MAY 2023 – Move aside, Swiss bank accounts, there’s a new (more traceable) kid in town: crypto! A husband hid $500,000 in bitcoin
Continue reading40 years of debt: student loan borrowers’ struggles expose flaws in system
ABOVE: C.W. Hamilton, a 72-year-old Army veteran in Reno, took out a $5,200 student loan in 1977 and still owes almost that amount decades later. There are nearly 47,000 people who have been in repayment
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