Legal Professionals: IBM’s Watson is coming for your job. Are you ready?
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
4:00 – 6:00 pm
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
1201 Third Avenue, Suite 2200
Seattle, Washington 98101
Wine, beer and appetizers will be served.
The cost to attend is $20 per person and pre-registration is required.
About the presentation:
In 2011 IBM’s Watson soundly defeated two very successful former champions of the quiz-show Jeopardy! It was a benchmark if not for the artificial intelligence itself then certainly for AI in the public consciousness. But Watson is not stopping there; in fact, “he’s” just getting started. Among the first industries that Watson is tackling is law, with help from legal technology innovators Dan Katz and Paul Lippe. An engineer from IBM has even built a “personal Watson” for pro se litigation. If IBM can teach Watson to win Jeopardy, you can bet they can teach it file briefs, organize and review contracts, and perform routine, and maybe even more complex, legal tasks. And IBM is not the only one working on these problems. Hundreds of legal technology startups and millions of venture capital dollars are bringing an lodging an innovative market-disrupting assault on the monolith that has been the legal industry (including challenging regulation of lawyers).
This presentation will discuss the state of disruption in legal technology and legal regulation. What’s happening today and how quickly is this space accelerating? What can legal professionals do to understand and prepare for this brave new world?
Dan Lear is Director of Industry Relations for Avvo (www.avvo.com). Lear is a technology lawyer, facilitator, and blogger, and is the cofounder of the Seattle Legal Technology and Innovation MeetUp, a self-styled “legal hacking” group that meets regularly to explore, identify, and implement unconventional solutions to law’s problems, big and small. He’s also blogged and written extensively about the profession and its evolution on his blog Right Brain Law and for other online and print publications. In his six years as a practicing attorney and more than ten years in the legal industry, Dan worked for two lean “NewLaw” law firms, designed and implemented an online program for procurement contract processing, and was a part of early international legal outsourcing efforts with a Fortune 500 company. Lear received his BA in International Studies from Brigham Young University, and his JD and MBA from Seattle University.
Registration:
To register, please click here by Friday, March 6, or contact Sean Monahan at monas@foster.com or Barb Paige at paige.barbara@dorsey.com.
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The mission of NWLIA is to collaborate and participate in the sharing of knowledge and resources, promote visibility, and better serve the Northwest legal community. NWLIA includes the following associations that support the legal industry: Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA), International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), the Law Librarians of Puget Sound (LLOPS), Legal Marketing Association Northwest (LMANW), the Puget Sound Association of Legal Administrators (PSALA), and the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA).