Cassandre Coyer

Washington D.C.-based legal technology reporter, covering new things happening around data privacy and cybersecurity law, e-discovery and emerging technologies.

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April 24, 2023 | Legaltech News

Tokyo-Based Contract Review Startup Launches in US, Unveils GPT-4 Powered Contract Editing Tool

LegalOn Technologies took advantage of its U.S. release to announce new capabilities around its collaboration, search and editing features.

By Cassandre Coyer

4 minute read

April 20, 2023 | Legaltech News

Apprehension, Anxiety and Acceptance: 4 Ways Law Firms Are Approaching Generative AI

Watercooler talks in the legal tech industry have all revolved around generative AI in recent weeks, comprising sentiments of fear, excitement, curiosity and questions. Here, Legaltech News looked at some ways law firms are actually approaching generative AI.

By Cassandre Coyer

1 minute read

April 19, 2023 | Legaltech News

What Exactly Are 'Best AI Practices' in the U.S.? Colorado Offers One Answer

While only targeting a small part of the U.S. population, Colorado's life insurance draft bill could eventually raise the bar for what AI best practices look like in the U.S.

By Cassandre Coyer

4 minute read

April 19, 2023 | Legaltech News

Reed Smith CINO Discusses Firm's Generative AI Plans, From New Role to Pilot Projects

Reed Smith's chief innovation officer, David Cunningham, explains why the firm decided to create a director of applied AI role, and how it's looking to build its own large language models and leverage OpenAI's GPT models.

By Cassandre Coyer

6 minute read

April 18, 2023 | Legaltech News

ChatGPT's Hallucinations: Laughable Inaccuracies or GDPR Violations?

ChatGPT has received increased scrutiny from European data protection authorities, as well as from its citizens, who are starting to file complaints using what lawyers say could be effective strategies.

By Cassandre Coyer

4 minute read

April 17, 2023 | Legaltech News

Privacy-Compliant AI Model Training? One Startup Thinks It's Cracked the Code

In an interview with Legaltech news, Vaikkunth Mugunthan, CEO and co-founder of DynamoFL, discusses how the future of training large language models may not have to involve huge amounts of data collected from all over the world.

By Cassandre Coyer

5 minute read

April 13, 2023 | Legaltech News

Legal Tech's Solution to Tighter Budgets, More Data Privacy Work? Contractors

The rise of more data privacy contract work could ultimately help spur greater data privacy knowledge and skills within legal tech organizations in the near future, even as these part-time roles eventually become less prominent.

By Cassandre Coyer

4 minute read

April 12, 2023 | Legaltech News

When It Comes to Finding Innovative Firms, Does Size Matter?

A recent report from IPRO and ACEDS found that a majority of in-house lawyers are likely to prefer working with smaller firms going forward as they see them as more innovative, pushing back on the narrative that Big Law has been at the forefront of legal innovation.

By Cassandre Coyer

4 minute read

April 11, 2023 | Legaltech News

Legal's Use of Generative AI Should Mirror Driving Teslas: 'Still Watching the Road'

ChatGPT and other generative AI can be rife with hallucinations and privacy risks. But a HALB 2023 Symposium: Innovation, Law & Finance's Tuesday session discussed some of the secure ways that legal can leverage GPT-models in their work.

By Cassandre Coyer

5 minute read

April 11, 2023 | Legaltech News

Ironclad Publicly Launches AI Assist, Now Powered by GPT-4

The public launch of AI Assist, which now leverages OpenAI's newest large language model GPT-4, also comes with the release of new offerings within Ironclad AI more broadly.

By Cassandre Coyer

4 minute read

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