Extract from BDO’s Legal Tech Talk Podcast: AI and Data Collection
Emily has been at Akerman, an Am Law 100 law firm, for more than 20 years. She joined the firm as a paralegal. Now, as a litigation manager, she ensures efficient and effective processes for managing workflows, legal data, and documents. Four years ago, she helped start the e-discovery services department.
She’s also Director of Charity at Women in eDiscovery. She has been involved in the organization for several years, helping to establish the Miami Chapter and serving as chapter director.
Key Takeaways
- Emily attends Legal Week in New York to meet other professionals who work in legal operations and learn about the latest updates in technology.
- She is interested in learning about groundbreaking ideas to streamline data collection.
- Emily says generative AI may be useful in identifying data sources that many people forget during the data collection process.
- She suggests AI may be helpful to young lawyers working remotely who do not have the benefit of collaborating in person on a daily basis with more experienced colleagues.
- Emily says the difference between AI and Technology Assisted Review (TAR) is that TAR still requires a human to make decisions, but AI can make them for you.
