Artificial Lawyer on Tour, iManage, AltaClaro +

It’s conference season and Artificial Lawyer is on tour! AL’s founder will be lugging his legal AI guitar from London to Paris to Boston and to New York in the next few weeks, performing live a number of chart-topping songs, such as: ‘The Battle for Centrality’, ‘Let’s Change the Means of Legal Production’, and everyone’s favourite legal tech anthem ‘No More Billable Hours!’ 🙂

In some cases there will be a flying visit, but I’ll be in New York all week from Nov 14 to Nov 20, with Legal Innovators New York in the middle on the 17th and 18th. If you want to catch up either side of the US conference, drop me a line, or see you at one of the other events!

Some of the stops on the growing itinerary:

• Legal Innovators Paris Breakfast – Le Train Bleu, Paris – Oct 6 – see here.
• Legal Geek – London – Oct 14 + 15
• ClioCon – Boston, USA – Oct 25 + 26
• Legal Innovators UK – London – Nov 4 + 5 – see here.
• Legal Innovators New York – New York – Nov 17 + 18 / (Nov 14 + 20) – see here.

And on the subject of conferences, Cosmonauts have now opened Express Registration for Legal Innovators UK and New York. This means that if you are at a law firm or at an inhouse legal team you can now zoom directly to your tickets – which are complimentary as long as you qualify.

For London – Nov 4 and 5, at the Minster Building, see here:

And, for New York – Nov 17 and 18 – Midtown, please see here:

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Next up, some webinars – with AL moderating two great live online events on the same afternoon, back to back…!

iManage is holding a live webinar on October 8 at 10AM ET / 3PM UK time, to explore how ‘Context and Governance Will Shape Legal AI’s Future’. Artificial Lawyer’s founder will be moderating, alongside iManage’s Paul Walker and a surprise legal sector speaker to be announced shortly.

RSVP here.

Overview:

• The AI Adoption Challenge
• Why Context Matters More Than Models
• Governance as a Competitive Advantage
• From Information Access to Intelligent Work
• Preparing for an Agentic Future

As legal organizations race to adopt AI, many are discovering that success is determined less by the model and more by the quality of the foundation beneath it.

This webinar explores the two factors that most directly impact AI outcomes: context and governance. We will examine why institutional knowledge has become a strategic asset, how context improves accuracy while reducing cost and risk, and why governed access to information is becoming essential as AI assistants evolve into AI agents.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for preparing their organizations for the future of human-led, agent-supported knowledge work.

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And, a live webinar with AltaClaro and Verbit on the subject: ‘Why Pilots Train with Simulators (and Why Litigators Should Too)’ – 11 AM ET, 8AM PT, 4PM UK also on Oct 8.

Can lawyers learn from how other professionals train, such as pilots? Can simulators become a key part of training for lawyers, especially for litigators? You bet! On October 8, Artificial Lawyer will be moderating a live webinar with AltaClaro and Verbit on the subject: ‘Why Pilots Train with Simulators (and Why Litigators Should Too)’.

The live discussion, which takes place at 11 AM ET, 8AM PT, 4PM UK on Oct 8, and will cover:

• Why deposition skill decays without recurrent practice, and why litigation has ignored that reality longer than any other high-stakes profession,
• What aviation, medicine, and elite athletics can teach litigation about training and sustaining performance under pressure,
• How simulation-based learning creates the deliberate practice that keeps instincts sharp between live matters

RSVP here.

Overview

Every high-stakes profession has accepted a hard truth: performance under pressure is trained, not innate, and without recurrent practice it decays. Law is the exception. Not for want of mandatory continuing education, but because almost none of it asks a lawyer to perform under pressure and to be assessed on their performance.  

Commercial pilots usually complete simulator training every six months, not because they’ve forgotten how to fly, but because the profession recognizes that skill decays without deliberate use. Surgeons rehearse procedures. Elite athletes drill the same movements thousands of times.

The live discussion, which takes place at 11 AM ET, 8AM PT, 4PM UK on Oct 8, and will cover:

• Why deposition skill decays without recurrent practice, and why litigation has ignored that reality longer than any other high-stakes profession,
• What aviation, medicine, and elite athletics can teach litigation about training and sustaining performance under pressure,
• How simulation-based learning creates the deliberate practice that keeps instincts sharp between live matters

RSVP here.

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And now some news, which has calmed a little after several weeks of announcement mania. And as always, it’s short and sweet. But, as conference season gets into full swing, you can bet it’s going to go wild again.

• US law firm Akerman has launched PineWest Data Intelligence, a new service division that helps law firms, corporations, and government agencies manage, analyze, and act on their data. PineWest has come out of Akerman’s eDiscovery practice and extends the team’s data expertise beyond litigation ‘to the full range of challenges organizations face as data volumes grow and regulatory obligations multiply’, they said.
• The Barrister Group Chambers has united with Barrister Connect, MyBarrister and VENTRiQ under New Chancery Lane (NCL), the new parent company for all four brands. So, that’s a lot of barristers. Wig sellers, this is a market opportunity!
• Spellbook has announced that Meltem Kuran-Berkowitz will become its first Chief Marketing Officer. She’s been in the seat in a fractional capacity for the past six months and previously spent five years at Deel as Head of Growth.
• And Casepoint has announced the expansion of Casepoint IQ with their first AI agents: Relevance Determination and Issue Coding. They are within Casepoint’s eDiscovery application, and more agents will be released, they said.

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That’s all for now folks, have a nice weekend!

P.S. It’s now officially the Autumn, which is nice.

Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer, and Chair of Legal Innovators.