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Toby Brown retweeted
AI just helped someone sue their landlord without a lawyer.
$20 of ChatGPT vs $500/hr attorney fees.
This is happening all the time now.
The legal (and accounting) industry isn't ready for what's coming.
Toby Brown retweeted
Law Firms’ AI Nightmare Is Fewer Billed Hours and Lower Profits
@RoyWStrom news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
Discusses #LLM study by @gnawledge + Adam Smith, Esq on impact of GenAI on #BigLaw biz + profit, citing @wilsonsonsini as example of doing GenAI right.
Toby Brown retweeted
Podcasters - what if I told you could offer your pod to any listener around the world, in their own local language but still keep it in your own voice? That’s the pilot we’re launching @Spotify!
It’s called Voice Translation and using AI, translates podcasts episodes into alternate languages, all in the podcaster’s voice. It’s pretty insane. Take a look and let me know what you think!
spoti.fi/VoiceTranslation
Toby Brown retweeted
GenAI represents a legitimate advancement. Ignoring GenAI would be foolish. Failure to start down the GenAI path is a terrible plan. But #GenAI is a path, not a teleportation device. There is a staggering amount of work to be done to realize GenAI’s potential.
Toby Brown retweeted
Interesting development in legal #LLM
Anyone aware of other legal large language models?
🚨 Today we announce the alpha availability of the Kelvin LEGAL Large Language Model (K3LM) -- The First Legal Large Language Model ⚖️ 🏛️ 🚨
Chef Michael Bommarito 👨🍳 (@mjbommar) has been hard at work leading our team to this exciting moment and we have even more in store ahead ....
Some HIGHLIGHTS --
🏢 Enterprise Use: KL3M is focused on enterprise use in legal, regulatory, and financial workflows and applications. 🏛️
🫧 Clean Training Data: KL3M is the first large language model family trained from scratch on clean, legally-permissible data. ⚖️
🥇 Best-in-Class: Both models beat their peers in perplexity and toxicity. In domain, kl3m-1.7b wins on human preference for drafting and regulatory Q&A.
💻 First Models in a Family: The first two KL3M models are kl3m-170m and kl3m-1.7b, designed for real-time use on consumer-grade hardware.
🚀 Stay Tuned for More: Larger Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are already in the oven, heading for a release in late Q1/early Q2. 👨🚀
⚖️ Kelvin LEGAL Large Language Model (KL3M) ⚖️ will first be made available for customers of our Kelvin Legal Data OS and will later be made available to others -- stay tuned! 📺
READ MORE HERE: 273ventures.com/kl3m-the-fir…
#LegalGPT #LawGPT #LegalAI #NLProc #AI #KelvinLegal #LegalData #GPT
Toby Brown retweeted
8 simple ways to hire great talent:
(1) Pay above market
(2) Have a worthy mission
(3) Vividly visualize each role
(4) Make recruiting everyone’s job
(5) Fill your company with character
(6) Stop requiring specific degrees
(7) Bet on next-step people
(8) Default to respect
Toby Brown retweeted
The #SALI train speeds forward: @zuva_AI and @LiteraMicro announce their donation of Doc Types + Clause Types — which @SALIalliance is normalizing w/other sources — for #legal #standard classifications.
Kudos to @nwaisb for leading interoperability!
legaltechnology.com/2023/10/…
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.@SALIalliance Defines + Translates 12k Legal Data Tags in 11 Languages, Paves Way for Accelerated Global Adoption
Pr Rel sali.org/SALI-Alliance-Defin…
Thanks @mjbommar @273Ventures for adding definitions + translations using #LLM
Toby Brown retweeted
AI-Pocalypse: The Shocking Impact on Law Firm Profitability
Ryan McClead, @glambert, @gnawlege #3Geeks buff.ly/446kJq8
Analyzes how Generative AI, #LLM, could affect #BigLaw profitability with some reasonable assumptions. Could be a big-ish hit.
Toby Brown retweeted
The choir I direct, Schola Diffusa, just released a new one: Enjoy!
youtu.be/r0T_DbnkX6c
Toby Brown retweeted
Nice @ArtificialLawya piece — including
the rapid expansion of @SALIalliance implementations.
artificiallawyer.com/2022/12…
Toby Brown retweeted
Anyone who's interested in the ever-changing dynamics between in-house law departments and outside counsel should read this excellent piece by @DCaseyF.
I'll amend that: Read everything that Casey writes.
geeklawblog.com/2022/12/trus…
Toby Brown retweeted
It is immensely satisfying to see @Colangelolaw and his colleagues @InstFutureLaw and @LSAC_Official take off with such an important initiative. Congratulations and keep doing this important work! linkedin.com/posts/law-schoo…
Toby Brown retweeted
The original Gilded Age lawyers
@wihender via @Legal_Ev legalevolution.org/2022/06/t…
History (tl;dr) of Gilded Age lawyers (founders of several top firms today), in prep to revisit the blog's founding, unstated assumption of "political stability and relative economic prosperity"
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Tweet of the Week
SALI Releases LMSS 2.0 A Powertool Driving Legal Market Analysis and Insights
@jogdc deweybstrategic.com/2022/03/…
"this initiative which will benefit the entire legal market around the globe."
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My thoughts exactly!
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Tweet of the Week
#BadData, Part I: (Topsy Turvy) Demand for Legal Services
@jaesunum via @Legal_Ev
legalevolution.org/2021/12/b…
Another fab, analytic post by a leading #BigLaw thinker
Toby Brown retweeted
Excellent commentary on market position of #ALSP by @edsohn80 (multiple Tweets, click, then scroll up) prompted by recent ALM article reporting on survey.
In brief, it's not "#ALSP vs #BigLaw"
I agree
al coda - @factor_law (and others) has started to work together with outside counsel as well. The "megamatter" going to law firm vs ALSP is a false binary; we have a core belief that collaboration with firms on transactional work is a mostly untapped, exciting model.
Toby Brown retweeted
Don’t miss @DCaseyF’s latest post for 3 Geeks and a Law Blog reflects on the broken culture around learning. Check it out here. #LegalInnovation
geeklawblog.com/2021/10/cle-…