I am very happy to be included among most cited scholars in the network of the INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION – PRESIDENT’S TASK FORCE ON THE FUTURE OF LEGAL SERVICES along with John Flood, the late Larry Ribstein, Richard Susskind, Paul Lippe, Tanina Rostain, William Henderson among many others …
Tag: artificial intelligence and law
Exploring the Use of Text Classication in the Legal Domain (via arXiv)
ABSTRACT: In this paper, we investigate the application of text classication methods to support law professionals. We present several experiments applying machine learning techniques to predict with high accuracy the ruling of the French Supreme Court and the law area to which a case belongs to. We also investigate the inuence of the time period in which a ruling was made on the form of the case description and the extent to which we need to mask information in a full case ruling to automatically obtain training and test data that resembles case descriptions. We developed a mean probability ensemble system combining the output of multiple SVM classiers. We report results of 98% average F1 score in predicting a case ruling, 96% F1 score for predicting the law area of a case, and 87.07% F1 score on estimating the date of a ruling
10 Legal-Tech Lessons from Dollars to Doughnuts at Fin (Legal) Tech (via ABA Journal)
See coverage of our conference here
Honored to Deliver the Keynote Address at the NALP Summit on Emerging Careers for Law Grads
Honored to deliver the keynote at yesterday’s NALP Summit on Emerging Careers for Law Grads
Why Open Source Artificial Intelligence in Legal Tech ?
On August 1, we released Contrax Suite (an open source document analytics platform). It is important to note that we have decided upon dual licensing – (1) open source (AGPL) which is pretty hard core copyleft and (2) a more permissive license in specific circumstances. The key for us is to maintain the opensource ecosystem which requires balancing competing interests. We cannot grant the more permissive license to everyone under all conditions or it undermines the entire effort.
That said, we have a real problems in the A.I. + Law community. Some of the claims are outlandish and the business model (at its core) does not really make sense. We think that opensource helps solve for some (perhaps not all) of the adoption issues.
Fastcase to Launch Artificial Intelligence ‘Sandbox’ for Law Firms (via Bob Ambrogi – LawSites Blog)
This is an interesting development – click here to access story!
IE LawX 2017 in Madrid – Presented by IE Law School in Collaboration Stanford CodeX
It was my great pleasure to give the opening Keynote Address at IE LawX 2017. I would like to extend my thanks to IE Law School, Dean Javier de Cendra and to all of the team who put on a fantastic event on #LegalTech #LegalInnovation #LegalAI!
Speech at the Dutch Legal Tech Meetup – Amsterdam
A great group here at the Dutch Legal Tech Meetup (the overall community has more than 800 members) – yesterday I spoke at a special student focused session! Thanks to Jelle Van Veenen Jeroen Zweers for serving as my hosts.
Lexpo 2017 Amsterdam – The Legal Innovation Event
Legal Innovation is a global phenomena. US, UK, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe, South America, Asia, Central America, Africa, etc. (and new events in new places popping up everyday).
My view is that despite jurisdiction differences – lawyers are lawyers. No matter where I travel they are a recognizable species with similar business, technology and process improvement challenges.
Lexpo 2017 brings this conversation to the Netherlands for the second straight year. I will be presenting on Artificial Intelligence and Law.