The "Understanding Generative AI for Legal" event, organized by the NY Legal Tech Meetup, is a pivotal gathering aimed at exploring the transformative impact of large language models and generative artificial intelligence on the legal industry. Scheduled for Monday, March 20th, at Paul Weiss, this event seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of these emerging technologies and their potential applications within legal practice.
The event will commence with a primer on the basics of large language models and generative AI, setting the stage for an in-depth panel discussion titled "Understanding Generative AI for Legal." Esteemed panelists include Pablo Arredondo, Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Casetext; Jennifer Mendez, Senior Director of Knowledge Management and Innovation at Fisher Phillips; John Nay, Co-Founder and CEO of the Brooklyn Investment Group; Leslie McCallum, Founder and CEO of Lexata; and Benjamin Alarie, Law Professor and CEO of Blue J. These experts will share insights into how generative AI is reshaping legal research, knowledge management, and practice innovation.
Attendees will have the opportunity to network over food and drinks starting at 6:30 p.m., followed by introductory remarks and community introductions at 7:15 p.m. The primer and panel discussion will begin at 7:25 p.m., with continued networking at 8:30 p.m. This structure ensures ample time for both learning and professional engagement.
This event is ideal for legal professionals, technologists, and anyone interested in the intersection of law and technology. Participants will gain valuable insights into the capabilities and implications of generative AI in the legal field, making it a must-attend for those looking to stay ahead in an evolving industry.
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Benjamin Alarie
Law Professor, Author, and Founder & CEO at Blue J
Benjamin is a law professor, author and entrepreneur. Prior to becoming a law professor, he completed graduate work in law and Yale Law School and a judicial clerkship at the Supreme Court of Canada. As a full-time academic he holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and is an affiliated faculty member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. As an entrepreneur, he is founder and CEO of Blue J, a legal technology company that is committed to leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring clarity to the law. As an academic researcher, he has published dozens of academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored several books. Since 2021, Alarie has had a regular column in Tax Notes in which he uses machine-learning to analyze and make predictions relating to pending and recently decided American tax cases. His most recent book is, The Legal Singularity: How AI Can Make Law Radically Better (University of Toronto Press, 2023).
Jennifer Mendez
Senior Director of Knowledge Management and Innovation at Fisher Phillips
Jennifer is the Senior Director of Knowledge Management Innovation at Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment firm with over 500 attorneys. In this role, one of her focuses is to build and foster a culture of knowledge sharing and innovation. Starting out in law libraries before transitioning to knowledge management, Jennifer has implemented many tools for law firms over the years, including research databases, SharePoint portals, internal and client-facing collaborative tools, enterprise search, custom applications, and business development tools. Jennifer has a passion for delivering intuitive, innovative, and accessible solutions as evidenced by her involvement with the design and development of an intranet that was winner of the intranet innovation award from StepTwo Designs and the first employment-specific heatmap tracking COVID-19-related workplace litigation. Jennifer is a frequent author and speaker on the topics of legal knowledge management, innovation, and process improvement. In 2021, she was runner-up in the American Legal Technology Awards’ individual category for “demonstrating success in making a positive difference in the world as it relates to legal technology,” a finalist in the Women in Tech Excellence Award for the Lockdown Legend of the Year category, and a contributing author to Emerging Approaches to Information Services published by ARK Group.
John Nay
Co-Founder & CEO at Brooklyn Investment Group
John is an A.I. researcher and the CEO of an A.I. technology company. As a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, he conducted research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Office of Naval Research. After Vanderbilt, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NYU. As an Adjunct Professor, he created the first A.I. course at the NYU School of Law. He is currently a Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, operated by Stanford Law School and the Stanford Computer Science Department, leading a research project on A Legal Informatics Approach to A.I. Alignment. You can find John’s publications on A.I., law, policy, finance, economics, and climate change at http://johnjnay.com, and follow his research on Twitter at https://twitter.com/johnjnay.
Leslie McCallum
Founder & CEO at Lexata
Leslie McCallum is the founder of Lexata, a question answering system for capital markets regulations. Lexata is an early stage start-up whose SAAS is built on GPT-3 with a proprietary database, NLP pipeline and prompt engineering. Leslie has a deep understanding of the opportunities and risks of generative AI in the context of high stakes use cases like legal research, where outputs must be reliable if they are to have any professional or commercial value. Leslie is a securities lawyer by training who practiced at Shearman & Sterling and Torys LLP before founding Lexata. She is called to the bars of New York and Ontario and attended Columbia University (LLM) and the University of Toronto (LLB). She has served as Chair of Ontario’s Securities Advisory Committee and has been an Adjunct Professor of Securities Law at the University of Toronto.
Pablo Arredondo
Cofounder & Chief Innovation Officer at Casetext
Pablo Arredondo is Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Casetext, a legal technology company that develops sophisticated research and drafting tools to improve access to legal research and help attorneys practice more efficiently. Pablo’s innovations, including Casetext’s pioneering brief analysis tool, CARA A.I., have been recognized by the World Economic Forum, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the American Bar Association. In addition to his groundbreaking contributions at Casetext, Pablo is a CodeX Fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, where he focuses on civil litigation in common law jurisdictions, with an emphasis on how litigators access and assemble the law. Prior to becoming a trailblazer in legal tech, Pablo was a litigator at Kirkland & Ellis and Quinn Emanuel, where he represented leading technology companies in patent litigation at both the district court and appellate level. Pablo is a graduate of Stanford Law School and the University of California at Berkeley, and is a member of the New York and California bar.
Event Details
- Date
- March 6, 2023
- Location
- 🇺🇸 New York, United States
- Paul Weiss
- Pricing
- Free for students
- Audience
- Legal professionals, technologists, and individuals interested in legal technology and innovation.