In this contributed article, Daniela De La Vega Smith, an accomplished legal and compliance professional, discusses how AI-driven contract analysis, workflow automation, and predictive insights are changing the game for legal operations. From optimizing contract reviews with natural language processing to enabling cross-departmental collaboration and proactive risk assessment, Daniela talks about how AI is transforming contract lifecycle management into a more efficient, accurate, and proactive function within organizations.
How AI is Transforming Legal Operations and Revolutionizing Contract Management Efficiency
Protecting your Organization’s IP in the Era of Generative AI
In this contributed article, Alexis Liu, Head of Legal at Weights & Biases, discusses how intellectual property (IP) protection is a difficult area to navigate in the age of generative AI (GenAI). This article explores the law as it stands today, ways to protect GenAI work from an IP perspective, and what work you should avoid using GenAI on in the first place.
Achieving Data and Legal Compliance in the Event Industry
In this contributed article, Devin Clearly, VP of Global Events at Bizzabo, discusses how to balance the benefits and risks in the new era of event data and best practices for ensuring data security, privacy and compliance. Data security and legal compliance must be top of mind for today’s event industry organizers. Data is currency in the digital age.
Using Artificial Intelligence Tools to Run Proactive “Health Check” Investigations
In this contributed article David Carns, Chief Revenue Officer of Casepoint, discusses how businesses can use AI to run “health check” investigations preemptively. If your organization is already using an eDiscovery platform with built-in AI tools, it might make sense to explore how you can use those tools for broader data management, information governance, and risk mitigation purposes.
Will Robot Lawyers Lie Like Humans?
In this contributed article, Pawel Stopczynski, Researcher and R&D Director at VAIOT, believes that armed with technology, lawyers are already more efficient than before. The trend toward digitizing law is poised to continue as robot lawyers become smarter and more capable. The question is, will robot lawyers lie like humans?
AI Teaching AI Via Online Contract Law Game Created Due to Covid-19 Lockdown
ContrAI is a modular, web-first product that uses AI to aid contract management and analysis. The contract processing required to train the ContrAI system was due to enter its second phase from May this year following the initial categorization process at the end of last year. However, the lock-down meant that it would no longer be possible to bring together groups of legal students to implement this in person. As a result, the online Clause Game was developed to enable the contracts to be marked up remotely, providing essential data to train the algorithm.
AI for Legalese
Have you ever signed a lengthy legal contract you didn’t fully read? Or have you every read a contract you didn’t fully understand? Contract review is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process for everyone concerned — including contract attorneys. Help is on the way. IBM researchers are exploring ways for AI to make tedious tasks like contract review easier, faster, and more accurate.