At a time when there is a great thirst for knowledge about real world law firm GenAI projects and use cases, knowledge management conference SKILLS last week stepped up to the plate with a series of presentations and discussions around successful collaborations. What was interesting was the emphasis not just on the nature of the projects, but the successful relationships and service delivery behind them.
Founded by longstanding legal chief knowledge and innovation officer Oz Benamram while at White & Case, SKILLS started out as an exclusive in-person New York City event, but the online version – such as the one that took place on 16 January – has enabled organisers to expand its global reach and audience.
Presentations this year appeared thanks to both an internal committee and public vote. The talks included a look at how Paul Weiss has embedded Harvey across their business and, more specifically, is training lawyers to use GenAI with Harvey’s help; the importance of teaching attorneys the power of prompt engineering at Ballard Spahr; a look at the work Weil Gotshal is doing on AI-powered email summarisation with Syntheia; how DLA Piper’s KM team has partnered with Centari to extract data for deal intelligence with GenAI; and how GenAI can revolutionise the processing and exploitation of KM in law firms – this from Legal IT Insider’s lead analyst and longstanding legaltech consultant Neil Cameron.
The second half of the day looked at how Salesforce’s law department is working with legal statute and caselaw database vLex; a study from Legaltech Hub and Vals AI comparing AI with human lawyers; how Dechert is using AI to benchmark suitable tools; Cleary Gottlieb’s AI and transparency awareness AI pilot tracker; the work Reed Smith is doing with Litera to centralise its data; and how Fasken achieved a breakthrough innovation working with Lega, which enables law firms and other organisations to safely explore GenAI technologies.
