AI For Lawyers

FOREWORD xi

INTRODUCTION xiii

Part I The Point: AI in law is here to stay. It's time to take advantage 1

1 How Lawyers Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI 3

2 #DoMoreLaw: How Doing Work More Efficiently Can Create More Legal Work, Not Less 21

3 The Small Law Mindset: Bringing Biglaw Capabilities to Smaller Firms 43

4 AI: A Modern Job Creator: The New Legal Mindsets, Skill Sets, and Jobs That Are in Demand 51

5 Amplifying Legal Expertise: From One-to-One Advisory to Scalable, One-to-Many Service Delivery 71

6 The Ethics of Lawyers Using—and Not Using—AI 81

Part II The Proof: AI technologies are delivering results today 93

7 eDiscovery: What It Is and How AI Is Continuing to Transform How It Works for You 95
By Dera Nevin

8 AI in Legal Research: How AI Is Providing Everyone Access to Information and Leveling the Playing Field for Firms of All Sizes 107
By Jake Heller, Co-Founder and CEO, Casetext
Laura Safdie, Co-Founder, COO, and General Counsel, Casetext
Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Casetext

9 Litigation Analytics: The Emergence of Analytics in Law and Why It's Now Dangerous to Practice Litigation Without Data 119
By Anthony Niblett, Co-Founder of Blue J Legal

10 Contract Review to Contract Capital: How Ubiquitous Access to Contract Analysis Software Will Transform Legal and Business Practices 131

11 Expert Systems: Self-Service Law and the Automation of Legal Question-Answering 145
By Michael Mills, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Neota Logic

Part III The Plan: Leverage data and AI to expand and future proof your practice 153

12 The AI Adoption Framework: Understanding the Adoption Path That Will Help You Get Ahead and Build the Practice of the Future 155

13 Conclusion 165

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 171

ABOUT THE AUTHORS 173

INDEX 175