Lawyers and legal professionals can use AI and analytics to transform the delivery of legal services, making life better for customers, people in our organizations, and society. This session provides a fundamental understanding of AI, large language models and analytics, sorts out hype from reality, and discusses how to get started to transform your practice.
Chair:
Daniel W. Linna Jr., Senior Lecturer & Director of Law and Technology Initiatives, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law & McCormick School of Engineering, Chicago, IL
Program Materials Coordinator:
Daniel W. Linna Jr., Senior Lecturer & Director of Law and Technology Initiatives, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law & McCormick School of Engineering, Chicago, IL
Moderator
Daniel W. Linna Jr.
Senior Lecturer & Director of Law and Technology Initiatives
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law & McCormick School of Engineering
Chicago, IL
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Dan’s teaching and research focus on innovation and technology, including the use of artificial intelligence and data analytics to improve legal-services delivery as well as the law, regulation, and governance of computational technologies. Dan is also an affiliated faculty member at CodeX — The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Dan began his legal career with a one-year judicial clerkship for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. After his clerkship, he joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, where he was elected equity partner in 2013. Before law school, Dan was an information technology manager, developer, and consultant.
Panelists
Irina Matveeva
Chief of Data Science and AI
Reveal
Chicago, IL
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Dr. Irina Matveeva is Chief of DS and AI at Reveal where she leads research and development of AI/ML technologies. Dr. Matveeva is also adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Matveeva has ten years of experience in eDiscovery and led the data science team at NexLP before joining Reveal. She has an extensive background in search technologies and industry research from her work at Accenture Technology Labs. Dr. Matveeva frequently presents on the subject of AI and NLP. Dr. Matveeva earned her PhD from the University of Chicago. Her research interests include NLP and continual multilingual learning.
Kristian Hammond
Professor of Computer Science
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Evanston, IL
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Kristian Hammond is the Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University and the co-founder of the AI company Narrative Science (recently acquired by Salesforce). He has spent most of his career focused on the problem of making machines smarter. He works on bridging the communication gap between the data we gather and the information that is locked within it. In 2023, he was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He believes in humanizing computers with the aim of stopping the process of mechanizing people. Kris received his PhD from Yale.
CLE Program: Transform Your Practice with Artificial Intelligence and Analytics
Type of Session
CLE Program
Description
This session is in-person only.
CLE Program Level: Mid-Level
Presented By: Legal Analytics
Co-sponsoring Committee(s): International Business Law, International Coordinating
