Stephanie Wilkins

Stephanie Wilkins

Stephanie Wilkins is the Editor-in-Chief of Legaltech News at ALM. She has spent the better part of the past decade following the evolution of legal tech and learning how it can help in-house counsel, law firms and others in the legal industry. As a former practicing litigator, she is particularly interested in how legal tech can and should be used in real-life practice and the valuable differences it can make. Stephanie is also keenly interested in shining a light on the ways legal tech is being used to help the greater good.

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June 21, 2024 | Legaltech News

The AI Advantage: Stay Ahead or Fall Behind

AI technology is not static; it is continuously evolving, with each iteration bringing more sophisticated capabilities and improved performance. Waiting for AI to achieve perfection before adopting it is a misguided approach.

By By Brandi Pack, UpLevel Ops

6 minute read

June 18, 2024 | Legaltech News

AI Gold Rush: Are We Repeating the Dot-Com Bubble?

The parallels between the dot-com boom and the current AI boom are striking, characterized by a cycle of technological innovation, consumer enthusiasm, and speculative investment that often characterizes transformative eras in tech history.

By Cheryl Wilson Griffin, Legal Tech Consultants

12 minute read

June 18, 2024 | Legaltech News

Tracking Generative AI: How Evolving AI Models Are Impacting Legal

A running compilation of how the legal landscape continues to be shaped by generative AI tools, from GPT technologies to art generation tools and beyond.

By Legaltech News

185 minute read

June 13, 2024 | Legaltech News

How Legal Gen AI Is Better Preparing Law Students for the Real World

With many law schools in the U.S. providing students free access to legal Gen AI tools, and law firms offering AI training courses, law students are better equipped with skills that make them more efficient, confident, and practice-ready on day one of their summer associateship.

By Serena Wellen, LexisNexis

7 minute read

June 13, 2024 | Law.com

Gen AI Is Eliminating Legal Research and Internal Work Product Silos

A recent byproduct of the generative AI boom has brought about a sudden coupling of once-disparate document management systems and legal research tools.

By Stephanie Wilkins

7 minute read

June 13, 2024 | Legaltech News

Filevine Launches New Document Management System 'Docs by Filevine'

The company is positioning its new DMS offering as a challenger to legacy providers iManage and NetDocuments by promoting unlimited document storage at a lower price.

By Stephanie Wilkins

2 minute read

June 12, 2024 | Legaltech News

AAA Launches ClauseBuilder AI to Simplify Drafting of Arbitration and Mediation Agreements

The new tool, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o model, offers more than 500 curated clauses intended to streamline the drafting of clear and effective alternative dispute resolution agreements across industries.

By Stephanie Wilkins

3 minute read

June 10, 2024 | Legaltech News

The Sedona Conference Mourns the Death of Executive Director Craig Weinlein, 68

Weinlein succeeded founder Richard Braman as Sedona's executive director in 2014, but his involvement dated back to the organization's very beginnings, serving on the faculty of Sedona's first Conference on Patent Litigation in 2000.

By Dave Lumia, The Sedona Conference

4 minute read

June 04, 2024 | Legaltech News

11th Circuit Judge Uses ChatGPT in Deciding Appeal, Encourages Others to Consider It

In a proposal he said "many will reflexively condemn as heresy," Judge Kevin Newsom suggests that those who follow an "ordinary meaning" approach to law should consider how AI-powered LLMs such as ChatGPT can "inform the interpretive analysis."

By Stephanie Wilkins

5 minute read

June 03, 2024 | Legaltech News

Nervous System: The ELIZA Effect

The first chatbot, ELIZA, was created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the 1960s as a Rogerian-style "psychotherapist" using natural language communication.

By David Kalat, BRG

6 minute read