Category: Cognitive Computing
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3 Geeks and A Law Blog – The Geek in Review Ep. 128 – Joseph Raczynski – The Red and Blue Pill Matrix of AI and Emerging Legal Tech
This was a ton of fun! I had the chance to record this “holding Joe’s feet to the fire” 😉 conversation about the future of legal industry and where we all may be going with dynamic duo of Marlene Gebauer and Greg Lambert. Thanks to both of them for the opportunity to go down the rabbit hole of…
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The Law Firm of the Future
Interview with Joseph Raczynski, written by Michelle Worrall Tilton Kanas City Metropolitan Bar Association Attorneys look to precedent to solve today’s legal problems. “Steeped in tradition” is how we often describe the legal profession. As result, it’s no surprise that there is inherent tension between emerging technology and the legal profession. The American Bar Association’s…
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Understanding the lessons of the pandemic and human nature at Legal Geek
Originally published on Thomson Reuters, Legal Institute. By Joseph Raczynski The pandemic was “the great equalizer” for the legal industry, combining the good from before with the great from the now. A recent half-day virtual event, Legal Geek Presents Thomson Reuters Takeover, underscored this idea and offered a glimpse into the latest legal insights on the…
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LegalTech Report Card and Predictions 2020 to 2060 – ILTA Conference 2020
I had the privilege of being selected to report on how ILTA (International Legal Technology Association) did on their predictions from 2013 up to today, during their 2020 ILTA-ON Conference. Even more fun, predicting what technology and LegalTech will look like from 2020-2025, and then going out to 2060. Remember back when we had ‘Law…
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Podcast: The Hearing – Gail Gove – General Counsel – Reuters
I spoke with Gail Gove, General Counsel at Reuters who takes us behind the scenes of the case that grabbed the world’s attention in 2018: the incredible story of Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who were imprisoned in Myanmar while investigating reports of mass murder. Gail and I talk about the all-encompassing…
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Podcast: The Hearing With Kevin Poulter & Joseph Raczynski – Future Legal
Episode 2 of THE HEARING is now live! In episode 2 of The Hearing Podcast Kevin Poulter speaks to futurist Joseph Raczynski on #legaltech #AI #blockchain and the future of the robot lawyer. Listen now and subscribe to #thehearingpodcast on: iTunes – https://tmsnrt.rs/2swyzmz Spotify – https://tmsnrt.rs/2kOOpVw SoundCloud – https://tmsnrt.rs/2Js4deI
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MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain Busts Open New Thinking
By Joseph Raczynski Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab – Cambridge MA – October 2017 – In one of the more unique and unusual conferences I have participated, the inaugural MIT Legal Forum on AI & Blockchain was a meeting of 200 minds from across academia, law firm, and corporations big and small. It included IBM Watson as…
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Understanding the Impact of Emerging Legal Tech: What is Here, What is Coming & What is Important?
This was originally posted in The Legal Executive Institute. By Joseph Raczynski Major credit for these events goes to the respective Field teams in Boston, New York, and Hartford as well as home office – Marketing – on pulling these off with aplomb! A special thanks to the Thomson Reuters Labs for their deep…
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Emerging Technology in the Legal Industry (Video)
By Joseph Raczynski In this Vlog, learn about Emerging Technology in the Legal industry. I focus on the impact of the Trinity of Forces (Cloud, Infinite Processing Power and AI) on Emerging Technology in the Legal industry. The Emerging Technologies discussed are: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Analytics, VR/MR/AR (Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality) and…
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Legal Technology is “Thriving”: Richard Susskind Hosts the British Legal Technology Forum 2017
Originally posted on the Legal Executive Institute By Joseph Raczynski LONDON — The British Legal Technology Forum 2017, Europe’s largest event focused on legal technology, was held recently at the exquisite Old Billingsgate along the Thames River. The event showcased 55 speakers on five stages, with more than 1,400 in attendance. Event organizers use a…
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Blockchain Podcast from the British Legal Technology Forum 2017
Legal Technology and Blockchain. How I anticipate this will impact the legal industry.
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ILTACON 2016: Re-Imagining Legal Technology for the 21st Century
So reverberated the words of Mike Walsh a Futurist/CEO of Tomorrow, across an audience of more than 3,000 legal professionals at ILTACON 2016, a four-day conference that centers on the intersection of technology and the legal industry.
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ILTACON 2016: Looking into the Future & Building the Exponential Law Firm
At ILTACON 2016, Rohit Talwar, CEO of Fast Future, spoke about the disruption in the legal industry occurring around us and more precisely which technologies will have the largest impact on law firms in the near future.
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Wall Street Lawyer – Securities in the Electronic Age Wall – June 2016 ▪ Volume 20 ▪ Issue 6
By Joseph Raczynski An article of mine on blockchain published on the Wall Street Lawyer: Wall Street Lawyer
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Law Firm of the Future – The Trinity of Forces: Infinite Processing Power, Memory, and Machine Learning
By Joseph Raczynski In ten years, it is predicted that 40% of the Fortune 500 companies will no longer exist1. This forecast originally cited in Fast Company is from a Babson Olin School of Business study. This notion is nearly incomprehensible, but may have a significant impact on the legal business. Why is this happening…
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ILTACON – Legal Technology Innovation: Bolstering and Destroying the Legal Profession
By Joseph Raczynski The Napsterization of the legal industry is growing more plausible every day. The innovation and disruption seen in the music business around digitization and file sharing is happening right now to the legal industry. Ryan McClead of Norton Rose Fulbright led a panel discussion, “Legal Technology Innovation: Bolstering and Destroying the Legal…
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Exponential Growth—The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 2
By Joseph Raczynski Over the course of the next several years I predict that many law firms will begin hiring data scientist. In my previous post Exponential Growth – The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 1 I discussed how our current data explosion threatens experts at law firms but could…
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Exponential Growth – The Data Explosion and Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for Law Firms, Part 1
By Joseph Raczynski We are currently living in the hockey stick portion of explosive data growth. That is, 90% of data humans amassed has been collected during the past two years. According to IBM Watson, this is gathering speed exponentially such that 2.5 billion gigabytes of new data is generated every day and the majority…
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The World of Advanced Endpoint Security
By Joseph Raczynski Surprisingly the vendors in cybersecurity differ on their approaches to protecting your law firm. At the ILTA LegalSEC Summit 2015 in Baltimore, MD they had a panel discussion on how each vendor tackles the ever bounding threats. For background when this post refers to endpoint security I am describing securing the user at…
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Form a Phalanx: Law Firm Lessons on Managing Cyber Security through Talent and Culture
By Joseph Raczynski The 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum As law firms continue to appreciate the significance of creating an understanding surrounding security and risks, this starts with a sharp focus on talent and culture. The first component that the panel discussed during the Data Privacy, Security & the Globalized Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum,…
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From Russia (and Asia) with Love: Cyber Warfare and the growth of State-Sponsored Hacking
By Joseph Raczynski The 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum The scope of the threats to law firm data is global. In this panel discussion at the Data Privacy, Security & the Globalized Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum, a country by country breakdown of dangers were discussed while the audience absorbed the magnitude of the panels…
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Enemies at the Gate: Responses to Data Security Threats at Law Firms
By Joseph Raczynski The 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum In eerie silence, law firms could be easily breached like JPMorgan Chase, Home Depot and Sony by cyber criminals. The difference with law firms, few would know the sensitive data was absconded. While law firms do not have to report such penetrations we learned at…
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Stanford, Sights Set on Legal: Part 3 – School Projects Create Significant Companies
By Joseph Raczynski The Legal Lessons Learned from Stanford Series Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently…
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Stanford, Sights Set on Legal: Part 2 – “Designing” a Legal Industry
By Joseph Raczynski The Legal Lessons Learned from Stanford Series Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently…
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Stanford, Sights Set on Legal: Part 1 – Fidelity Investments Estate Planning
By Joseph Raczynski The Legal Lessons Learned from Stanford Series Stanford University is fully embracing the legal industry, a historically cautious mover, as a focal point of its innovative solutions. The industry is primed to evolve through more transformative processes by pairing inventive thought and applied technological advancement to solve niche legal process issues. Recently…
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The Next Legal Era: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing
By Joseph Raczynski We are on the cusp of a new era in computer technology. What could possibly connect rapid automated legal decisions; systematized stack ranked medical diagnosis, and never created scrumptious food recipes? At the IBM Cloud Innovation Forum in Dana Point CA, Mike Rhodin SVP of IBM Watson connected the three with a…
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White Paper – Customized Integration, Thomson Reuters Legal
By Joseph Raczynski In the ever-evolving legal marketplace, law firms, corporate legal, and government agencies are seeking to deliver rich, more dynamic, intelligent environments for their users. As the new normal solidifies, tailoring specific content through selective dissemination embodies the essence of this new reality. At West, two primary complementary services exist to best position…