When will the legal market truly transform due to the impact of generative AI? Have we overcome the challenges of AI accuracy yet? Will we see another Atrium-style launch? These and other key questions are explored with Annie Datesh, Chief Innovation Officer at Wilson Sonsini.
The AL TV video interview, ahead of the Legal Innovators California conference, June 11 + 12 in San Francisco – and where Annie will be one of our many expert speakers – can be watched below.
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AL TV Interview Topics Covered:
- What the firm’s Neuron group does.
- How concerns over genAI accuracy remain a key issue and how the firm is handling its approach. How do you develop expectations on how to handle such outputs, and is 80% accurate good enough?
- When and how we will get to better accuracy?
- What will happen as we see a ‘thickening of the application layer’ for genAI tools?
- Can AI agents change the picture?
- How soon will we see real transformation within the legal sector? A lot sooner than some people believe, is the answer.
- Will we see a genAI-driven Atrium-style legal group return? (Annie spent two years at Atrium.)
- How the change is real this time: ‘We’ve been talking for decades about how ‘this is the watershed….’ Now it seems real. Now it’s get on or get out of the way.’
- And what will be the highlights of attending Legal Innovators California, June 11 + 12? Annie notes: ‘It’s a coming together of people and ideas. We don’t want to operate in a silo so the event is invaluable.’
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About Legal Innovators California Conference in San Francisco, June 11 and 12
Legal Innovators California is the landmark legal tech and innovation event held each year in the heart of the Bay Area.
We will be exploring the cutting edge of legal tech, looking at what’s happening right now with plenty of real-world analysis, as well as examining what’s coming – and if there is one thing we can be sure of with the rapid expansion of legal AI is that there is a lot more to come…!
Some of our expert speakers – with many more to follow in the months ahead – include:
- Annie Datesh – Chief Innovation Officer, Wilson Sonsini
- Danielle Benecke – Founder/Director Baker McKenzie AI/ML, Baker McKenzie
- John LaBarre – General Counsel – Harvey
- Sunil Parameswaran – Head of Legal Tooling – Solutions Enablement, Global Affairs, Google
- David Wang, Head of Innovation, Cooley
- Kelly Noguchi – Senior Strategic Operations + Legal Technology Manager – Instacart
- Dr. Megan Ma – Associate Director, Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX)
- Todd Faulkenberry – Applied Scientist – Legal Policy and Economics, Uber
- Sarah LaBeche – Practice Technology Advisor, Ropes & Gray
- Kevin Walker – Founder & CEO, Centari
- Owen Oliver – Head of Product, StructureFlow
- Mark Webber, US Managing Partner, Fieldfisher
- Nik Reed – CEO, Knowable
- Anthony Seale – CEO, Legatics
- Naveen R. Pai – Chief Knowledge Officer, Gunderson Dettmer.
As you can see, we have speakers from across the legal innovation ecosystem, from senior experts at leading law firms, to inhouse pioneers at some of the world’s largest companies, to – as you’d expect -founders and CEOs of some of the top legal tech companies in the world.
In terms of tech companies and ALSPs taking part, we already have an incredible roster of pioneers to hear from and meet. This includes: Legora, Harvey, StructureFlow, Ivo, Flatiron Law Group, PointOne, Centari, eBrevia, Legatics, Knowable, Draftwise, newcode.AI, Riskaway, SimpleClosure and more.
We will also be hosting a special Startup Gallery, designed to help new and smaller companies to get seen and be heard. Get in touch with Robins at Cosmonauts if you’d like to take part: robins@cosmonauts.biz
