Hi and welcome to the September Orange Rag. In our top stories we take a look at LinkedIn’s recent opt out data harvesting efforts and the successful pushback from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, and we bring you our first review of OpenAI’s latest Gen AI model o1, which was put through its paces by contract review provider Spellbook. Plus, if you aren’t aware of UK private equity legal advisor group Lawfront and their current project to build a Microsoft Dynamics 365-based practice management system, catch up here. To be frank, this is the stuff of nightmares for anyone who has been burned by earlier failed Dynamics PMS projects, but these are very different times.
At Legal IT Insider we sometimes vote for a vendor of the month, and this month one has really jumped out. Congratulations to CLM vendor ContractPodAi. Morae Global Corporation at the end of August announced that it has further extended its partnership network with ContractPodAi to provide Gen AI contract drafting capability to Morae’s customers. PwC is busy building a consulting service around ContractPodAi’s gen AI legal assistant Leah. ContractPodAi has also this month hired Tanja Podinic as SVP of AI Programs – this is her first vendor role. Podinic’s previous roles include generative AI lead for global legal business solutions at PwC and global director of innovation programs at Dentons. You should find most, if not all, the month’s big stories right here.
