With AI, law, whether code, regs, cases or secondary law in the form of insight from legal professionals, has moved from text to data.
The Santa Fe Institute has a nice explanation of how we now read the law leading off their study on law as data.
“The study of the law requires interacting with that text by reading
Clio’s CEO Jack Newton shared the importance of context in AI in a post today. “…[E]ven the most powerful model operates in a vacuum without proper context.”
Jack continued: “In legal that context includes statutes, cases, documents, emails, billing records, deadlines and countless other sources of information.”
Jack’s right that the model isn’t the point, the context is. But look
A leading legal publishing and technology executive, whom most of you would know, told me Friday that the strongest thing the Library at LexBlog has going for it is authority. The authority a legal professional would receive via their digital publishing being included in the Library and the authority the publishing itself would receive by being included in the Library.
Well done Clio. The launch of skills in Clio Work is a real example of knowledge integration across a law firm.
Skills, just launched as part of Clio Work, not only enables a lawyer to retain their work and style working with an AI-driven solution, but also enables an entire law firm.
The way a partner likes their demand letters
Twenty-one years ago I wrote about a lawyer’s possible ethical obligation to blog. I asked, “Why not?”
”American lawyers have a moral and social obligation to serve the public. Providing free legal information via a blog whether it be to corporate officers, in-house counsel, consumers or small business people serves the public two ways.
One, legal information will be made
For those of you following along with the building of the Library at LexBlog, I learned something new this week.
You need to include numbers for each paragraph in a published work that is digitally native. Otherwise, the judge and the opposing side cannot see, in particular, what you referenced in a pleading, brief, memorandum or another document.
What this
It’s interesting when you start working on a cause in which you really believe that you start reaching out to people, most of whom you don’t know, to get feedback, insight and help.
I did it when I moved to Seattle 27 years ago to build a virtual legal community of people helping people, lawyers and lay people alike. There
Yesterday it was Legal Data Hunter, today it’s Trellis Law. I’m beginning to see how legal tech companies are enabling lawyers to work with legal data through Anthropic’s Claude.
Trellis Law is an AI-driven legal research and analytics platform designed specifically for state trial courts. While traditional platforms focus heavily on appellate opinions, Trellis structures trial court data across 45
From Legal Data Hunter, “Every country has its own laws. Every court publishes its own decisions. Every government buries its statutes in its own portal, its own format, its own language. The result? A legal world fractured into thousands of silos — and AI that can only think inside one of them at a time.”
Not for long. Anthropic’s Claude
The Library Development and Networking Division of the Texas State Library reports on the introduction of virtual court kiosks in county law libraries offering “a secure, private space where patrons can connect to legal resources and even attend virtual court hearings.”
“At the Harris County Law Library, Law Librarian Rod Hall shared during a recent TLA Tech Chat webinar