Morning all, here’s your Friday Follow-On, covering the upcoming ‘Lawyer Training in the Age of AI’ webinar; Legal Week in New York; Legal Innovators California conference – June 11 + 12; and the Lexis Create+ genAI contract drafting walk through.
Hotshot Webinar on AI and Future of Lawyer Training – Thursday, April 3
On Thursday, April 3 – 12 Noon EST, 5PM UK, Hotshot and Artificial Lawyer will be hosting a new webinaron the future of legal education and lawyer training, especially with regard to how legal tech and AI are reshaping this crucial area for lawyer development and learning.
The panel will include:
- Caitlin Vaughn, Managing Director of learning & professional development at US law firm Goodwin,
- Ian Nelson, Co-Founder, Hotshot,
- Chair – Richard Tromans.
Book your place here.
Training Lawyers for the Age of AI
Training is having a moment like never before as GenAI is causing an evolution of the associate role. This is making law firm leaders to consider what new skills associates need, how they should learn these skills, and who is best placed to train them.
In this webinar, we’ll discuss these issues and more, and we’ll also look at Goodwin’s innovative training program designed to prepare associates for the GenAI era, which won the Financial Times’s 2024 innovation award in the category of skills & people.
It’s free to attend, but please RSVP here.
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Lexis Create+ GenAI Contract Drafting Tool – AL TV Walk Through
This week’s AL TV Walk Through is with LexisNexis and explores what its new Lexis Create+ genAI drafting capability can do.
Lexis Create+ is a personalised drafting tool that works within Microsoft 365. It connects with an organisation’s DMS – including SharePoint, iManage, and NetDocuments – and with LexisNexis’ content, and provides ‘advanced generative AI capabilities’.
It helps lawyers to:
- Draft legal documents, covering content, proofreading, and redlining,
- Unlock your work with a ‘smart connection to trusted internal documents and one of the world’s most comprehensive legal content libraries, enhanced by AI capabilities’,
- Access ‘AI-supercharged drafting’ with a legal generative AI Assistant that delivers personalised, high-quality drafts within Microsoft Word.
Madeleine Graham-Glater, Principal Product Manager, takes us through Create+, followed by some Q&A with Artificial Lawyer. Press Play to watch inside the page, or go directly to the AL TV Channel to watch this and 150+ other helpful videos on legal tech.
(P.S. If you’d also like to have your product or new feature showcased in an AL TV video, please drop us a line.)
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Legal Innovators California Conference – June 11 + 12 – San Francisco
The Legal Innovators California Conference in San Francisco takes place on June 11 + 12.
The landmark event in the heart of the Bay Area tech world will be across two days: Day One: law firms, and Day Two: inhouse. Come along and engage with the leading legal tech experts from law firms, inhouse and tech companies in California and from across the world.
Tickets are on sale now – see ticket page here.
See here for more information, tickets, speaking and sponsorship opportunities.
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New York and Legal Week
Artificial Lawyer will be at Legal Week in New York from Tuesday 25th March to Thursday 27th. I haven’t been to the Big Apple since Spring 2022…! Yep, a long time – so it will be interesting to see how things have evolved.
Looking forward to meeting up with folks, especially those working at the cutting edge of legal innovation and legal AI implementation / development.
P.S. if you’d like to share information about get-togethers, drinks receptions, and special announcements, etc during the Legal Week conference, drop me a line.
P.P.S. Artificial Lawyer and Cosmonauts are planning a breakfast on the Wednesday morning, more on that next week. But, if you’d like to attend, please reach out to: timo@cosmonauts.biz
See you all there!
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That’s all folks, have a nice weekend.
(Main pic: RT, photo of Manhattan from Brooklyn, 2022.)
