ronfriedmann

I improve law practice via KM, legal tech, and process. Lawyer, analyst, marketer, blogger, ex-Bain, ex-econometrician. @Gartner_inc analyst; views my own.

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How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs https://t.co/D3IyjTGdyi via @NYTimes

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I've set up over at @bluesky and will post more there than here, at least short term as I experiment.

I hope it brings us back to what Twitter was a few years ago

I'm at
https://t.co/MZI4RrtKwU

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This company wants to be your law firm and legal AI tech provider in one
@LegalDive https://t.co/FJFUVT26a3
Explains Avantia Law legal services with GenAI #LLM
Interesting read
#NewLaw or #ALSP 2.0 ?

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UI range for GenAI per ⁦@NicoleBradick⁩

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At legal GenAI conference, session on agentic AI:
Will agents become like Lotus Notes, with 5 apps for every workflow, ie, reinventing wheel.
Great question.

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Generative AI and the New Era of Preventive Lawyering
@stephenembryjd https://t.co/aW7wwgVQEG
Glad to see another voice discussing #DoLessLaw

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@jborstein @RoyWStrom Even dinners, disruption in #BigLaw has been an evergreen topic for much of this century.
My Q: when folks talk about it, are they forecasting, or just wishing it?

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Law Firm Revenue Soars 12% as Lawyers Get Back to Being Busy
@RoyWStrom https://t.co/yN1eS7VXii
"Top lines at the 50 largest law firms grew 14%" thru Q3 per Citi
Demand up 3.2%
Tech spending up (not quantified)

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@RWS_01 @BLaw Indeed but the question of long term viabiility of smaller #BigLaw remains.

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Herbert Smith Freehills, Kramer Levin Announce Merger Plans
@BLaw https://t.co/Upim3ai8Vd
Wondering again how many sub-500, and maybe sub-1000 lawyer #BigLaw will survive, other than boutiques or niche practices.
Thoughts welcome

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AI Saves Ad Agencies a Lot of Time. Should They Still Charge by the Hour?
@WSJ https://t.co/lYMqdx6KBB
Change "Ad Agencies" to "law firms" > all the same considerations.

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Q3 2024 LFFI: Firms’ profits reach new heights on wave of resurgent demand
TR / @legalcurrent https://t.co/CHMcn3GTW9
2nd highest read ever
"Demand growth was incredibly broad"

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What's new in legal tech, KM, and innovation in #BigLaw and the legal market?
Join me on January 16 for the free, volunteer-led, and juried selection of short presentations at the virtual hashtag#SKILLS conference.
Agenda and register for free at https://t.co/74mV2SNP1P

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@edward_aldridge I was trying to add text at the end of an open iOS note.

You raise a good point that requests may need to be more carefully worded. What, computers can't read my mind? 😀

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I hope Apple Intelligence improves with future iOS releases. Siri is not much smarter yet. And the #LLM feature does not understand basics, e.g., I said "type a the end of this [open] note" and it did not know what that means.

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The Enigma Of Big Law Innovation
@legalmosaic https://t.co/S3J3uMXKKP
Mark Cohen asks great questions about innovation in and the business model of #BigLaw, esp. relevant in the age of #LLM

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Gen AI Makes Legal Action Cheap — and Companies Need to Prepare
@HarvardBiz https://t.co/9VZTwlioya
Shows how #LLM could dramatically increase the number of legal filings, and impact of that.
This is the opposite of #DoLessLaw
It's @DoMoreLaw, but not in the way @nwaisb meant

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Am Law 50's Runaway Rates Put Onus on Legal Departments to Stiffen Resistance
ALM https://t.co/1QRZ4bLt5k
Brightflag survey:
"Am Law 100 increased hourly rates an average of 10.0% in 2024, more than double last year's 4.8%"

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Just 11% of Legal Departments Predict Gen AI Will Be 'Transformative,' as Its Honeymoon Phase Fades
ALM on ACC +1 Survey https://t.co/TU6hBdiBSS
#LLM expectations are high, usage and benefits, not so much. These findings are consistent with the many legal department calls I have

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Legaltech News Editor-in-Chief Stephanie Wilkins Moves to Legaltech Hub
@bobambrogi https://t.co/0FknIcPSV4
Congrats @StephAWilkins + @LegalTechHub1