ABA Journal

Legal Rebels Profiles

e-Sign on the Dotted Line: When it comes to using generative AI and contracts, the devil is in the details

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Along with drafting and reviewing, generative AI can leverage contract datasets for strategic insights to help mitigate risk and negotiate, manage and assess contracts.

Age of e-Discovery: Generative AI could revolutionize e-discovery—but buyer beware

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Typically cautious with new technology, attorneys are dipping their toes into “a sea change” of new generative artificial intelligence tools for e-discovery.

Rewiring Entry: How AI could blur the borders of immigration law

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When veteran immigration lawyer Greg Siskind used a beta version of Casetext’s artificial intelligence legal assistant CoCounsel for research in a class action lawsuit, it was a “light bulb” moment for him.

Change-Maker: Rodrigo Camarena is building tools to help immigrants become citizens and combat wage theft

Swift Justice: Roy Ferguson has always been interested in increasing judicial expediency and efficiency

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Some people talk about giving up their luxurious lifestyles to help those in need. In 1999, Roy Ferguson actually did it.

Helping Hand: Swapna Reddy is helping asylum-seekers navigate the immigration system

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In early 2015, Swapna Reddy volunteered for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigration detention center near the U.S.-Mexico border that held thousands of asylum-seeking parents and their children.

Examining the Future: Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt are spearheading efforts to reinvent attorney licensing

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For the last three decades, complaints about the bar exam were common but change was minimal. But Joan Howarth and Deborah Jones Merritt wanted to do more than grumble.

Blazing a Trail: Oregon is moving away from the traditional bar exam and embracing supervised practice

Finding Her Way: Jacqueline Schafer has long seen the potential of AI to help lawyers work more efficiently

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Before artificial intelligence became a common legal tool, Jacqueline Schafer was hooked on it.

Clearing Obstacles: Noella Sudbury is helping people expunge their criminal records

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Noella Sudbury knew she was onto something big when she helped organize Utah’s first free “Expungement Day” in 2018.

How patent lawyer Raj Abhyanker developed a $8.5M book of business with Trademarkia

: Engineering Change

Patent Attorney, Legal Force, Palo Alto, California

Gerald Abila's Barefoot Law helps Ugandans use smartphones to learn about their legal rights

Founder

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Barefoot Law

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Kampala, Uganda

Ken Adams: Word Miser

: Educating lawyers to be better writers

Founder and President, Adams Contracts Consulting, Garden City, New York

Legal writing pro is helping teach AI to draft contracts (podcast)

Founder and President

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Adams Contracts Consulting

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Long Island, New York

'You can't incarcerate away drug problems,' says Ann Aiken, who proposed a tech tool for parolees

Chief judge

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U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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Eugene, Oregon

Ryan Alshak: Keeping time so you don’t have to

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Ryan Alshak

CEO

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Ping

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Berkeley, California

For Linda Alvarez, 'Attorney' Doesn't Have to Equal 'Adversary'

: Agreeing Advocate

Solo practitioner, Half Moon Bay, California

Robert Ambrogi's blog points lawyers to tech's opportunities (podcast)

Massachusetts

Denise Annunciata: Paralegal Power

: Offering paralegal work online

Founder, Virtual Paralegal Services, Boston, Massachusetts

Frank Aquila: Free Talker

: Pushing back the curtain through media of all types

Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York, New York
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