I spoke with Jerry Ting, the CEO and co-founder of Evisort, an AI-powered contract analysis system. We discussed the genesis of Evisort and its recent $15 million investment, advice for legal tech entrepreneurs seeking investors in 2020, how investors should evaluate early-stage, pre-revenue companies in legal, ways that hopeful entrepreneurs could carve out their niche, and where legal tech is headed.
I spoke with Tim Pullan, the founder and CEO of ThoughtRiver, an intelligent contract pre-screening platform. We discussed the genesis of ThoughtRiver, how its technology works, ways that its platform differs from others on the market, the value for its clients, and where the usage of this technology is headed.
I spoke with Bill Hamilton, a legal skills professor at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law and the executive director of the UF Law E-Discovery Project, which is hosting the UF Law E-Discovery Conference on Thursday, March 29th. Bill practiced with Holland & Knight in Miami and Tampa for 27 years and at Quarles & Brady in Tampa for six, where he served as the firm’s national e-discovery partner.
We discussed the UF Law E-Discovery Conference on Thursday, March 29th, the Careerfest component of the event, the consortium of professors meeting after the conference to discuss e-discovery education in law schools, and how individuals can remotely take advantage of the content (as the law school will be live streaming and recording the sessions).
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I spoke with Aaron Crews, the general counsel and vice president of strategy for Text IQ, a developer of technology that helps enterprises manage legal and compliance challenges. Prior to joining Text IQ, Aaron was senior associate general counsel and global head of eDiscovery for Walmart.
We discussed his new role at Text IQ, how Text IQ defines AI, what differentiates Text IQ’s technology from others in the marketplace, and how law and compliance are evolving for an AI-future.
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I spoke with Mark Noel, the Managing Director of Professional Services for Catalyst, a provider of litigation support software and services.
We discussed the webinar Catalyst hosted with Rees Morrison of Altman Weil, Inc. – Centralize, Simplify, Save – How to Leverage Technology to Decrease Outside Legal Spending – focused on the results of the consulting firm’s 2016 Chief Legal Officer Survey, how the report addresses the approach to metrics and cost reduction by corporate counsel, why outside counsel should provide that information to their clients, and ways that artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to respond to the concerns of chief legal officers, among other topics.
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I spoke with Jacob Morse, the vice president of marketing and product strategy at Brainspace, a machine learning platform focusing on e-discovery and knowledge management.
We discussed the company’s approach to concept search, its philosophy on machine learning, the advantages of leveraging this technology, and the challenges associated with convincing lawyers to use it, among other topics.
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During this year’s Legal Tech New York conference, I had the opportunity to interview Naritomo Ikeue and Sunil Mudunuri, President & COO and Senior Manager of Marketing & Business Development, respectively, for UBIC North America, Inc., the maker of Lit i View, an e-discovery tool that evaluates English and Asian-language characters, encoding schemes, and native file systems.
We discussed the global landscape for electronic discovery and multi-lingual predictive coding, among other topics.
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I spoke today with Dean Kuhlmann, the vice president of business development for Lateral Data, a Xerox Company, which makes the Viewpoint e-discovery software platform. We discussed his expectations for 2013, how his team is addressing those expectations, and the top trends that he expects to take hold in the new year.
He anticipates the rise of portability and mobility in connection with the development of on-site programming for overseas document review. He also highlighted that technology assisted review is no longer a novel trend. Rather, it is a key technique that teams will use on a more consistent basis.
He predicted that in the near future, it will not be the technology on which people focus; it will be the talent.
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In anticipation of Legal Tech, I spoke with George Tziahanas, the senior vice president for legal and compliance solutions at Autonomy. We discussed the rise of meaning-based coding, the convergence of Stratify and Introspect, and the changing landscape for information governance. Listen to our interview below:
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