We recently chatted with Clio’s Damien Riehl (Solutions Champion) and Joe Kaczrowski (Manager of Legal Content). This talk follows our presentation, Old Fashioned Research in the Age of AI. Damien walks us through the Vincent vLex, Clio Grow, legal taxonomies (er…’ontologies’), symbolic AI, and more. This is doing superhuman work at superhuman speed with a […]
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Adobe Spaces for Newsletters
We put together an Adobe Space for a promotional email this month but what we really love about the tool is how we might use it for client newsletters, especially for those who need to summarize legal developments. In sum, Adobe Spaces is a curated AI workspace. Upload up to 100 documents to the space […]
Demand Letter Generator
We used three main resources to create a demand letter for an employment discrimination matter: Download the skill here: To activate the skill, do the following: As always any feedback is welcome! And, reach out for help.
50 State Survey Visualization Options
We like tools like Tableau and Looker for visualizing multi-jurisdictional surveys but AI tools are making it easy to generate visualizations that serve as more than mere eye candy. The serve as useful, deeper-dive tools. Here are a few ways you can get creative with 50 State Surveys. We began with a Westlaw Advance AI […]
Heppner and Warner Side-by-Side
Recently, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York addressed what he called a “question of first impression” regarding AI logs. In United States v. Heppner, the court held that a criminal defendant’s conversations with the AI platform Claude were not protected by the attorney-client and work product privileges. Matter of First […]
AI “Her” Legislation
In October, California enacted SB 243 (effective Jan 1). This law mandates certain disclosures for companion AI chatbots (e.g., 2013’s Her) . Other states are following suit. Generally, this chatbot regulation includes psychological protections for minors, explicit transparency requirements, prohibition of addictive designs, privacy safeguards, and comprehensive enforcement and liability provisions. Select a state below […]
Industry Newsletter
This month, we applied a number of search techniques to draft and deploy an industry-specific, legal newsletter. The work took us about an hour but the bulk of the work was drafting effective prompts. The most challenging part of a project like this one is perfecting the prompts. Here, further improvements can be made for […]
Prompt Variables
This proof of concept video demonstrates a nice blend of conventional document automation and generative AI. A prompt variable is just a placeholder within your document template for text that’s generated by AI. It enables you to more fully automate documents like pre-suit demand letters which traditionally include both standard law-firm text as well as […]
Doc Auto Glossary
We tend to toss around terms like ‘forms’ and ‘templates’ as if they were interchangeable. In fact, these documents serve unique purposes. Here’s a short glossary of how we use these common terms here at GPL. The first set of terms relate to resources often used to develop automated workflows. The terms after the table […]
MLM Non Engagement Guide
This quick workflow generates a customizable declination letter. We used Minnesota Lawyer Mutual’s (MLM) No Engagement Guide and included their notes. We built this on the Empire Builder on our way down to Wisconsin Dells. We’ll share this with MLM on the vendor floor at Wisconsin State Bar Association’s Solo and Small Law Conference. Give […]