June 18, 2025
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Mirror from Legal California Innovators (Part 1) – Artificial Lawyer

Mirror from Legal California Innovators (Part 1) – Artificial Lawyer


Last week, the artificial lawyer was chairing the California legal innovators conference and a lot of knowledge was shared. Here are some of them – based on memory and written notes. That’s part 1, part 2 will be tomorrow (after it was said too much!)

(Challenge with a conference and making notes at the same time is that you only get one chance to score some things on the side of the oppressed agenda. And then you end up leaving half of your agenda letters in the conference 🙂 every road, here’s what survived.)

Day One – The Day of the Firm of Law, there were many excellent speakers by Danielle Benecke (photo above) who gave a very detailed and structured note about the direction innovation realities for David Wang who started on the principles of Stage Cooley (see Al here’s article). During that day some major numbers based comments were allocated that really stuck in my mind. They were:

  • A week of work in a minute-dmth that with him we can now reduce a week of work, e.g. A large -scale but routine documents that would take day and day, up to one minute. And that changes so many things about the way lawyers work.
  • Openai’s engineers plan just a month ago – someone commented that Openai’s engineers had told them that the models are progressing so fast now that they only make concrete plans that spend a month ahead – as they do differently, given how one superstun another soon now. And this in turn will form what legal technology tools can do – as they are established on available LLM.
  • Turning a first year collaborator in a third year – ie. Since Genai absorbs the basic legal tasks that the juniors treat, we will have to accelerate co -workers to the learning curve, e.g. Taking the first year’s skills group, and moving them to do the job of a third year. (And ironically, we will surely need to use the means to train them, eg simulators.)
Danielle Benecke in Baker McKenzie giving the morning word on the first day.

And here are some other great ideas that were shared, especially on the second day – inner day:

  • The erection of digital twins – a speaker noted the opportunity to develop person Through the geni that represented the parties in an agreement, ie, so you can better understand which positions they can take. There are many more that can be done here.
  • That legal firms must share their best requirements with their customers – IE the legal firm should make the effort to educate their clients in it, and this involves sharing the requirements that help inhouse teams work better. Will they actually do it… ..? It remains to be seen.

Uber data scientist – Michael Kalish – came up with a great project planning:

Move out

Build up

Try roi

That is, when working on a new project for a legal firm or inside, we must focus on moving speeding to achieve something applicable, not strive and simmer the ocean. Theelli is to build small, and then with that more manageable purpose you can show ROI more easily.

After that you can expand the project then. It makes a lot of sense.

A happy leading leaders of legal innovators.

Big teams of inhouse vs small

There was a lot of discussions about the realities of working with the company of different sizes. Salesforce, Uber and Google – who participated – were massively engaged with him, who will not surprise. In some cases, they were even building their tools for the needs of the inhouse.

However

Katya Fisher, who, as well as the creation of Aracor, worked as an internal lawyer, noted that some smaller companies are not always in the same position, and some internal lawyers do not even want training for him as they will say ‘they have work to do’.

IE it is often seen as a universal cure for internal teams, but in some smaller companies that may not have a strong connection to the technology sector, for example, assuming they even want to embrace it may be wrong. This in turn opens up the need to build educational programs that consider where lawyers are on their journey.

And, with that subject of learning, Dorothy Cullen in Salesforce noted that no matter where we are in the legal sector, at the end of the day when it comes to adapting to a new world full of it – ‘We are all in this together. He is now part of inner life. ‘

Right, this is a nice comment to finish for now. More knowledge tomorrow in section 2.

And if that sounds interesting…. Then he comes together with the legal innovators New York, 19 November + 20, where the brightest minds will also share their knowledge.

And also, the legal innovators in the UK – 4 November + 5 + 6

Both events, as always, are organized by the wonderful Cosmonauts team!

Please contact them if you wish to attend.


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