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Ed Walters is the CEO of Fastcase and vice chair of the Board of Pro Bono Net. He teaches The Law of Robots at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Tech in New York City. He serves on the editorial board of RAIL: The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law, and he is the editor of Data-Driven Law (Taylor & Francis 2018). A version of this article originally appeared in the January/February edition of Law Practice Magazine.

Nothing Artificial About It: How Law Firms (Really) Use AI in Practice

Ed Walters, CEO of Fastcase, talks about how the new age of law firm innovation is changing legal services by moving from anecdotal to data-driven insights and thus providing better-informed guidance for clients. Walters also identifies the value of analytics to manage and mitigate risk, which he points out is almost always more cost effective than litigating the effects after the fact. Most importantly, Walters highlights not only how law firms are using AI, but that they are also building their own tools to deliver new types of services as well.

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Subjects: AI, Legal Marketing, Legal Technology, Technology Trends
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