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If a recent Thomson Reuters Report is any indication, lawyers and law firms plan to approach generative AI like they do most technology. Slowly and with skepticism. The Report, entitled, ChatGPT and Generative AI Within Law Firms, came out on April 17, 2023. Thomson surveyed lawyers in mid-size (30-179 lawyers) to large law firms (more... Continue Reading

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.

"Make no mistake, whether you want access to justice, whether you want to better help Fortune 500 companies to protect their IP rights, whatever it is in this profession of ours that you're doing, these large language models are going to have a substantial impact,"said Pablo Arredondo, Codex Fellow and co-founder and CIO of Casetext."

Every year we attend ABA TECHSHOW and share our thoughts about the conference. But since we wait for the Oklahoma Bar Journal print deadline, our review is published later than all the other bloggers. So while there have now been many reviews of ABA TECHSHOW 2003 written by now, including by well-known attendees like Bob... Continue Reading

Widespread use of generative AI by lawyers and legal professionals will occur when AI tools can be applied to specialized and often private data bases. There has been a lot of hype about ChatGPT of late, but according to various reports including one by Bob Ambrogi, the legal community’s reaction has been somewhat ho-hum. And... Continue Reading

On Wednesday night, Casetext  continued to celebrate the launch of their Generative AI platform, CoCounsel with a special  “Invitation only” event  during LegalWeek in New York. CoCounsel is powered by OpenAI’s GPT 4 and was the first AI technology to successfully pass a bar exam. The event included a demo of a new CoCounsel workflow... Continue Reading…

Last week, I posted on the issue of whether law schools should be teaching students how to use tools like ChatGPT. After I posted this, James Lau, well known legal tech author, and former Chief Legal Officer, pointed out to me that Open AI, GPT-4 Technical Report, 14 March 2023, states, “In particular, our usage... Continue Reading

OpenAI's most advanced model yet, GPT-4 has passed all portions of the Uniform Bar Exam and is helping to increase access to justice. "I cannot stress enough how much better this new model is than anything we've seen before," said Pablo Arredondo, co-founder and CIO of Casetext.