Colleen F. Nihill, chief knowledge management & practice services officer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Colleen F. Nihill, Chief AI and Knowledge Officer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Thomson Reuters AI Collaboration

Colleen Nihill, Chief AI and Knowledge Officer, answered the questions.

Necessity is the mother of invention. What need was your firm inspired to address with your innovation?

Generative AI is here and has the potential to augment and enhance services we provide to clients. One of generative AI's strengths is to take a lot of information, synthesize, sort, and summarize. This technology will not replace the human aspect but rather can be a tool our lawyers draw on in the course of their work. So, this is primarily about being able to train our lawyers and enable them to practice in the most sophisticated and efficient ways that our clients expect.