I’m a big fan of all things “Access to Justice” (A2J), so I was pleased to see this app from DoNotPay and equally happy to see today’s update: “new updates to DoNotPay, … will allow a user to sue anyone in small claims court in any county in all 50 states—without the need for retaining a lawyer.” There are several other very cool new functions as well, as described in this story in The ABA Journal.
From Artificial Lawyer: “UK law firm Mishcon de Reya has announced that it is sharing the legal AI models related to real estate it has developed through Kira Systems with the AI company’s wider customer base.” “‘By collaborating with Kira to enhance their UK real estate offering we have already gained valuable insight into how artificial intelligence works and how we can best leverage AI to better support real estate clients, delivering our services innovatively and more efficiently and we look forward to continuing to working closely with them,’ he (Nick Kirby) added.”
Also from Artificial Lawyer, this interview with Charley Moore of Rocket Lawyer in which Charley discusses embracing smart contracts and the use of the Ethereum blockchain as the platform for his new ‘Rocket Wallet‘.
This post from Bob Ambrogi makes a convincing case that Cloud Practice Management Software Grows Up. “For the legal professionals who consume these products, this maturing and stabilization of the market can only be good news. No longer need they fear that the cloud is an iffy proposition. No longer need they worry about the viability of cloud providers or the security of their platforms. Cloud practice management is a mature and stable market offering a rich array of products and the promise of continuing development and innovation.”
Here’s yet another discussion of the incompatibility of the GDPR and blockchain: Why Blockchain And The GDPR Collide Over Your Personal Data, this time from Tom Kulik of Scheef & Stone.
I enjoyed this breezy summary of last week’s Clio Cloud Conference by Dan Lear, focusing on small firms.
I’ve got to see a demo of this new pricing offering from Neota Logic and Validatum: Platform brings AI to pricing legal work. “Virtual Pricing Director will give users a complete pricing summary, outlining not only the fees options but also an explanation of how they are calculated, making it easy for the client to select the right option for them. One more click and it will be automatically emailed to the client, and put on your client file.” Wow.
Here Osler touts its CRM platform that provides “Relationship Intelligence” by “leverage(ing) artificial intelligence (A.I.), machine learning, and data automation to improve team productivity, data accuracy, and completeness of information in CRM.”
This from Australia’s Stacks: Algorithms, artificial intelligence, automated systems and the law. Several AI problems are discussed relating to society, business, government, and the human race generally.
And finally for today, Brownstein published Rise of the Machines: Artificial Intelligence and its Growing Impact on U.S. Policy, a summary of the “House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology … white paper on the intersection of public policy and artificial intelligence (AI).”