In this webinar with NetDocuments, we discussed what AI adoption really looks like in practice, and some of the learnings so far about what makes for a successful AI project.
Our editor Caroline Hill was again joined by Jen Poon, who, with nearly a decade of legal experience, currently serves as legal AI solutions director at NetDocuments. Poon was previously litigation counsel at Akin Gump, and before that was a corporate associate at Simpson Thacher.
We discussed how legal teams are using AI day-to-day; for what use cases; and what is working well and not so well. Poon said that within transactional departments, NetDocuments’ legal AI assistant is seeing high adoption, with one customer recently automating the review of 700 health care letters to dramatically cut the end-to-end revision process. In litigation, associates are using it to help draft pleadings and briefs, but, as yet, there is no integration with legal research platforms.
We discussed examples of where adoption of new technology has been good and why that is, including enabling associates to be involved in the vetting and selection process. We also chatted about how law firms are addressing client consent for generative AI tools – with many taking an opt out rather than opt in approach.
Poon also gave us a live demo of NetDocuments’ Legal AI Assistant, so click on the link below if you want to take a look at that.
As usual this was a fun and highly informative conversation, make sure you take a listen below: