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Friday Feb 09, 2024
#0003: (CCT) Incorporating Large Language Models (LLMs) in the Legal Arena
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
In this podcast interview, the speaker will share experiences and challenges in utilizing Large Language Models in the legal arena.
Questions the moderator asked the speaker:General -What are some of the key challenges that legal departments face in adopting and integrating LLMs into their workflows? -How can legal departments overcome the initial resistance or skepticism that may exist towards using LLMs? -How can legal departments ensure that LLMs are being used responsibly and ethically, without perpetuating biases or producing inaccurate or misleading results? People -How can legal departments train and empower their lawyers to use LLMs effectively? -How can LLMs be used to augment and complement the skills and expertise of lawyers, rather than replace them? -What are the potential long-term benefits of using LLMs in legal departments? Technology -What are the challenges of integrating LLMs with existing legal software and systems? -Provide examples of specific use cases (e.g., information governance, contract management review and drafting, eDiscovery, and/or R&C) -How can legal departments ensure that LLMs are aligned with security and privacy and regulatory compliance? Process What are the challenges of evaluating and selecting the right LLM for a specific legal task? How can legal departments ensure that LLMs are being used in a way that is aligned with their overall legal strategy?
Moderator:
@Carolyn Robinson - Senior eDiscovery Paralegal, Bosch
Speaker:
@Chistine Livingston - Managing Director of AI and IOT, Protiviti
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Too Many Updates!
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
In this podcast panel session, the speakers will discuss the challenges of the continuous and increasingly more frequent update cycles of 3rd party software. How can IT keep up with all the changes across the environment and what strategies can be employed to better manage this crucial aspect of living in the cloud.
Questions the moderator will ask the speakers:
-How do you balance the need for security patches with the potential disruption that updates can cause to ongoing operations?-How do you ensure compliance with industry regulations when 3rd party software is continuously updating?-What role do DevOps and CI/CD pipelines play in managing the frequent update cycles of 3rd party software in a cloud environment?-How do you prioritize which 3rd party software updates to implement immediately versus those that can wait, especially when dealing with a large and complex IT environment?-Can you discuss any real-world cases where a failure to update 3rd party software led to significant issues, and how those could have been avoided?
Moderator:@Christopher Hockey, IGP - Information Governance & Records Management Expert
Speakers:@Kathy Elsbey - Applications Manager, Bond, Schoeneck and King@Ben Radcliff, Senior Director of Manager Services, Optiv
Recorded on 10-25-2023.
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
What’s Up: The Retention of Work-Related Messages
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
Thursday Oct 19, 2023
In this podcast session, the speaker will discuss practical guidelines for the retention of informal means of (evidence collection) communications sent via text (such as, Short Message Service (SMS)) and messaging apps (such as, WhatsApp iMessage, and GroupMe).Questions the moderator will ask the speaker:-What are some considerations that need to be made when setting a retention policy or responding to a litigation hold from the technology side?-What are some challenges that people might not expect from extracting text messages or messages from a source that isn’t their computer?-What are some applications or places in a network or computer that people might not think about but would likely have a lot of that data that would be asked for?-What’s a good way to handle privileged materials that may be in those formats or apps?-What are just some simple best practices in communication data retention?
Moderator:@ Andrea Shirey - eDiscovery Expert, Bayer US LLC
Speaker:@George Socha - Senior Vice President of Brand Awareness at Reveal
Recorded on 10-19-2023.
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Will Artificial Intelligence Take Our Legal Jobs?
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Tuesday Jul 25, 2023
Questions the moderator will ask the speaker:
-With the audience of this podcast being attorneys and other legal professionals, we have to start with the obvious question, do you see AI taking their jobs?
-How do you see AI's role in the legal industry evolving in the future?
-When you think of data privacy, security, governance, and compliance, what do you think of related to risk associated to leveraging AI in the practice of law? Both as a tool for legal professionals and for laymen that might use a tool like DoNotPay.
-In your experience, how have you seen AI change and develop over the past years to address different challenges and needs in the legal industry?
-What advice would you give legal professionals when it comes to AI in their role?Moderator:@Joshua Moore - Lead Solutions Expert, NetDocuments Speaker:@Zachary Warren - Manager, Enterprise Content - Technology and Innovation, Thompson Reuters Institute Recorded on 07-25-2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Out of the Box Ways of Using AI
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
Tuesday Apr 18, 2023
This podcast session highlights some creative ways AI has been used inside corporations and law firms.
Questions Ryan asked the speaker:
Are there any specific examples of you using AI outside of the box that you would use as an example for people who are not sure if AI is useful for their project?
What are the differences between AI and Machine Learning?
Large language models: what do they actually do, how can we use them, and are there compliance risks? How do we evaluate LLM output and make sure we're getting something useful back?
Specific versus general: what are the ways we can think about point (specific, non-generalized) AI solutions versus generalized (e.g., GPT-4) solutions? What are the trade-offs between these approaches?
Do you need fancy data scientists and software? (Spoiler, no, you don't)
How do you evaluate an AI services provider/partner?Moderator:@Ryan Gerlach - Legal Analyst, State of California Office of the Attorney General - DOJ
Speaker:
Andy Ward, - Vice President, Machine Learning, Laurel Inc.
Recorded on 04-18-2023
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
If we have learned one thing from the pandemic, it’s the fact that we can’t always meet in person but we can continue business.In this podcast, the speakers will discuss ways that eSignatures, remote online notaries and virtual rooms can eliminate the need to travel to an in person Notary.Questions the Co-Moderators will ask Speakers:○ Could you please tell our listeners a little about yourselves? Aaron, let's start with you.○ If you both could briefly chime in as to what e-signatures are and what you can accomplish with them, that would be a great place to start.○ Can you explain for our listeners, how Notaries worked pre-pandemic?○ With the ongoing digital transformation, eSignatures became very popular in the last 2 years. More eSignature vendors offer unique features to digitize traditional workflows in different industries. We know you are familiar with online notarization and Virtual Rooms. Can you tell us more about Remote Online Notarization and Virtual Rooms? What are those and how can they help busy attorneys?Co-Moderators:@Jack Recinto - Senior Applications Director, Vedder Price P.C.@Alisher Yuldashev - Business Technology Advisory Manager, Borden Ladner Gervais
Speakers:-Aaron Davis - Director, Product Marketing, OneSpan-Raquel Lima - Product Manager, OneSpan
Recorded on 04-17-2022
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Eureka! Effectively Using Data-Mining and Analytics to Influence Decisions
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
There is no doubt that business decisions based on proven data have the best chance of being the most successful in any campaign, strategy or operation. Gathering the required data from the proper systems and then massaging it into the best format for consumption will power the most successful data driven decisions. In this podcast, we will delve into the deepest reaches of datamining to strike the most valuable information and then refine and process it into consumable reports and end products to ensure success.Co-Moderators:@Jack Recinto, Senior Applications Director, Vedder Price P.C@Alisher Yuldashev, Business Technology Advisory Manager, Borden Ladner Gervais
Speaker:Paul Wilner, Data and Analytical Consultant and Statistical Analysis Instructor
Recorded on 06-04-2021
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Windows 10: Another Runaway Train
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
As Microsoft moves Windows and Office to a subscription model where updates come much more frequently, many law firms are struggling to adjust. Join us in this podcast where Jason Baker (Fish & Richardson, PC) and Jay Parekh (Netrix, LLC) discuss what the new upgrade cycle looks like for law firms and what is happening in the field. Also, please take a moment to fill out this SURVEY, to help our speakers ascertain certain information about Windows 10 from the attendee perspective, that will be discussed during the June 6th webinar, “Windows 10, It’s Not an Event - It’s a Journey!”Moderator:Jason Baker - Senior Manager Helpdesk and Applications Architect at Fish & Richardson P.C.Speaker:Jay Parekh - Partner & Director, Enterprise Computing & Mobility at Netrix, LLC
Thursday Aug 03, 2017
Enterprise World 2017: Conference Summary
Thursday Aug 03, 2017
Thursday Aug 03, 2017
Ever wonder what goes on at Enterprise World, OpenText's annual user conference? OpenText is now one of the top 10 largest software companies in the world and the market leader in EIM and ECM. In this ILTA Radio installment, two attendees summarize the event and give us a glimpse into the product announcements made and the company itself.
Speakers:Sharon Malloch is the eDOCS Product Marketing Manager at OpenText. With the company since 2013, she previously spearheaded the marketing function for three successive tech start-ups, growing them from concept stage through to funding and customer acquisition. Sharon's early career was spent learning marketing best practices NCR and Hewlett Packard.
Paul Obernuefemann is the CIO at Lewis Rice and ILTA's Strategic Relationship Liaison for OpenText.