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Looking forward to discussing AI’s evolving role in litigation at ALM's General Counsel Conference East alongside Syllo CEO Jeffrey Chivers. Our roundtable will explore how litigation teams are using AI tools to improve client outcomes and how barriers to adoption can be overcome. 🗓 Date: Monday, November 18 ⏰ Time: 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM 📍 Location: Empire Complex, Marriott Marquis, NYC

It's exciting to collaborate with the forward-looking litigators at Ballard Spahr, using GenAI to innovate and deliver the best results to their clients.

Where are law firms in embracing GenAI in their practice? I’d say, most of the industry is still in the early stages and, in the realm of e-Discovery, we’re probably at the very beginning. During a panel on eDiscovery and Case Management at ILTACON, an audience of eDiscovery practitioners was asked whether they had used GenAI tools in actual litigation. Nobody raised their hands. This reaction is emblematic of where most law firms stand. Many law firms are limiting their adoption of AI to knowledge management and non-billable work. The reason is straightforward: Adoption of AI in active litigation reduces hours that are otherwise billable and threatens the bill-by-the-hour business model. The hope is that GenAI is mostly hype, clients will be amenable to very incremental change, and law firm business models will mostly stay the same. To whatever extent this mindset permeates the legal industry, it’s mistaken. Corporate clients are eager for AI solutions that reduce litigation expense. In-house counsel are jumping at the chance to reduce litigation expenses by reducing document review costs and they are rewarding the firms that are presenting these cost-saving options. To the extent firms are not yet encountering this scenario, they will soon. In the next year, as in-house counsel gather empirical proof that GenAI-driven document review is a viable solution that drives down costs, their expectations of an appropriate cost for large-scale litigation will evolve. This is the year for eDiscovery leaders to vet GenAI solutions that will have a tangible and quantifiable impact on client cost. By next year, I anticipate that the firms who are not among the early adopters of GenAI will find themselves under pressure from their clients to cut costs and attorneys will be looking to their practice support teams to have answers as to how they can compete for business. I’m curious to hear what others have been seeing. Do you think firms are more or less eager to adopt AI solutions? How quickly do you think litigation support teams will adopt GenAI software?

Steven Lerner at Law360 just published a great article about how Ballard Spahr LLP is using Syllo to get work done within “hours as opposed to within days or weeks.” Chair of litigation Jason Leckerman explains how Ballard uses Syllo’s “accurate and fast” technology to serve their clients here: https://lnkd.in/gwu8HKyf

One of the most interesting aspects of being the CEO of Syllo is the daily interactions I have with a range of law firms, in-house counsel, legal technologists, and ediscovery professionals. The most fascinating trend I am seeing right now is the widening gap between first movers and everyone else in how efficiently and accurately they can handle large-scale document reviews and organize a complex evidentiary record. There are firms completing large document reviews (from data loading to production) with extremely high accuracy in the span of a few days and just dozens of hours or less of attorney time. At the same time, there are other firms who are still using armies of reviewers whose work quality is mixed and still taking weeks or months and hundreds or even thousands of hours to complete similarly sized reviews. We are not talking about TAR or CAL levels of accuracy here. I am routinely seeing 97% to 100% estimated recall rates and high precision without any seed sets or sample sets involved, and the all-in cost of these reviews is often less than 60% the all-in cost of alternative methods of completing the review. The GenAI transformation of document review and the discovery process in litigation is fully underway. It will not face the same fate as TAR and CAL because it simply works too well. And this is a great thing: the effective use of generative AI in document review and discovery process is the most impactful first-wave application of generative AI to litigation, both in terms of financial savings for litigants and improving the efficacy of the legal system in the United States. Some of the Syllo customer team and I are in Nashville this week for #ILTACON. We have a booth and a conference room for meetings. Come see the best GenAI discovery solution on the market and discuss the future of document review, discovery, and litigation case management.

I am delighted to be speaking at ILTACON with Rachelle Rennagel and Kim Bookout in the session titled "Data to Decision: Bridging eDiscovery and Case Management." The session will be moderated by Ari Kaplan and presented on Tuesday, August 13, at 11am. The panel will address, among other things, the role of generative AI in bridging the gap between discovery and case management. Looking forward to an edifying session and discussion thereafter with those who attend.

Why are leading law firms migrating complex cases onto Syllo for large-scale document review and case preparation? Visit our meeting room at #ILTACON2024 and we’ll show you. Schedule a time to meet here: https://lnkd.in/e8Mmi4_K

Syllo will be at #ILTACON2024, showcasing how law firms are using GenAI Document Tagging to find hot documents faster, automate first-level review, and gain an advantage over their adversaries. You can find out more by visiting us at booth 856, or learn about Syllo now from our website.

We're excited to have collaborated with William N. Eskridge, Jr., Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Public Law at @Yale Law School, on "Paths to Responsible AI," part of the ABA's new book, " AI: Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies." Click here to order: https://lnkd.in/dB2SnpM5 #LegalTech #GenAI #DocumentReview #LawFirmInnovation #AI #ediscovery #legalinnovation #generativeAI

We're very grateful to National Employment Lawyers Association for highlighting our partnership during this week's NELA 2024 Convention. If you're attending, visit us to see our litigation platform and learn how to effectively use AI in your law practice. #LegalTech #GenAI #LawFirmInnovation #AI #eDiscovery #legalinnovation #generativeAI