Extract from Katie Pecho’s article “Scaling Smarter: An Energy Legal Team’s Progression to AI-Driven Work”
Successfully implementing AI in legal shouldn’t be a leap of faith. It should be a calculated and measured progression. Establishing a sturdy, scalable foundation cultivates a fertile environment for meaningful AI-driven legal work to evolve and thrive. And solidifying those initial building blocks helps secure your organization against risks down the road. You can’t build a skyscraper if your basement’s flooding through the windows.
When global energy company AES recognized the transformative potential of generative AI as ChatGPT was taking its first tentative breaths back in 2022, they saw a bright future of energy legal work unfold in front of them. And they immediately knew they needed to get on board. Adopting AI meant opening the door to both opportunity and risk. And for an energy company operating in a volatile, highly regulated environment, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Relativity’s Sarah Green sat down with Raquel Rodriguez, assistant general counsel at AES Corporation, and Bobby Coppola, chief strategy officer at PLUSnxt, in a webinar that explored the nuts and bolts of AES’s AI adoption initative. They shared how both building a strong foundation and choosing a strategic partner helped them scale smarter and win big with AI.
