Stephanie Wilkins
Legal innovation "means changing the way the profession has traditionally done business. As we progress through the 21st century, the profession must continue to modernize with the times," says Vito A. Gagliardi, Jr., Managing Principal, at Porzio, Bromberg & Newman.
A new product, Employee Compliance, will be a stand-alone offering that works with Intapp's existing suite of risk and compliance products
"Legal innovation means applying technology and know-how to solve problems so that legal practitioners can spend more time doing what they do best, using their legal expertise," says AJ Shankar, CEO and Founder of Everlaw.
"Legal innovation means finding ways, either through technology or process, to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our legal work, and enhance the value we add to the organization," says Eric Winston, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer at Mphasis.
"Our goal is to make something 1% better every day instead of trying to invent something completely new," says Colleen Nihill, Chief Knowledge Management & Practice Services Officer at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
The latest offering from serial tech entrepreneur Wayne Chang, LLM Shield aims to stop sensitive data leakage through tools like ChatGPT: "There's no reason why, in order to use AI and get the power that it brings, we have to give up our secrets, right?," Chang says.
"Ultimately, innovation is about creative change that adds meaningful value," says Alison Manchester, VP of Primary Law, LexisNexis.
The story of how a chance meeting in Ireland between the California Innocence Project and Canada-based legal tech company Clio led to a fruitful, long-term relationship that led to several exonerations, and now a podcast telling the stories of those exonerees.
"Legal innovation should capitalize on highly enriched, modeled data sets by producing advanced functionality and workflow solutions that anticipate what a client needs to stay out of litigation," says Nicole Stone; Director, New Product Development Content Strategy at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
Through Relativity's Justice for Change program, the Hawaii Innocence Project and the Innocence Project were able to use the RelativityOne platform to find critical evidence that led to overturning the wrongful conviction of Ian Schweitzer in one of Hawaii's most high-profile criminal cases.
"One aspect of legal innovation important to the firm involves bringing diverse viewpoints and backgrounds to new challenges, broadening the collective set of experiences to tackle new problems, which is exemplified by the firm's team approach to this and other matters," says Ron Best, e-discovery counsel at Munger, Tolles & Olsen, LLP.
The California Innocence Project is utilizing CoCounsel, the GPT-4-powered AI legal assistant from Casetext, to help level the access to justice playing field on the back end by streamlining the process for exonerating the wrongfully convicted.
Generative AI has taken the legal world by storm, and that means legal professionals are going to have to learn to communicate with machines. One key skill for doing so has emerged: prompt engineering.
"UnitedLex was founded in 2006 with a mission to push the boundaries of legal innovation. To do so, we work closely with legal and business leaders to embrace a transformational, data-centric approach that empowers organizations to grow and build competitive advantage," says Daniel Reed, CEO of UnitedLex.
