Extract from Stephen Embry’s article, “Finally, A Way To Measure AI ROI: Be Careful What You Ask For.”
Once you start measuring AI’s value, the next question is who gets to keep it.
In case anyone wasn’t listening, Legora, the legal AI provider, and Laurel, a work intelligence platform provider, recently announced a “partnership.” A partnership that reportedly has two main parts. It will offer what sounds like a fairly standard timekeeping tool. But it holds out the promise of an intriguing future tool that raises some possibilities.
And for users, the latter prompts some that suggest they may need to be careful what they ask for. (As a bit of an aside, I always wonder what these tech vendor partnerships really mean and what obligations come with them. Especially when the key announcement hinges on something the partners plan to do together.)
Automated Time Entry (Yawn)
The first part is an automated time entry program that turns every task a lawyer performs in Legora into a time entry. Reportedly, it will provide the client, the matter, and what was done for subsequent review.
