The "Understanding Generative AI for Legal" event, organized by the NY Legal Tech Meetup, is a pivotal gathering aimed at exploring the transformative impact of large language models and generative artificial intelligence on the legal industry. Scheduled for Monday, March 20th, at Paul Weiss, this event seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of these emerging technologies and their potential applications within legal practice.
The event will commence with a primer on the basics of large language models and generative AI, setting the stage for an in-depth panel discussion titled "Understanding Generative AI for Legal." Esteemed panelists include Pablo Arredondo, Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Casetext; Jennifer Mendez, Senior Director of Knowledge Management and Innovation at Fisher Phillips; John Nay, Co-Founder and CEO of the Brooklyn Investment Group; Leslie McCallum, Founder and CEO of Lexata; and Benjamin Alarie, Law Professor and CEO of Blue J. These experts will share insights into how generative AI is reshaping legal research, knowledge management, and practice innovation.
Attendees will have the opportunity to network over food and drinks starting at 6:30 p.m., followed by introductory remarks and community introductions at 7:15 p.m. The primer and panel discussion will begin at 7:25 p.m., with continued networking at 8:30 p.m. This structure ensures ample time for both learning and professional engagement.
This event is ideal for legal professionals, technologists, and anyone interested in the intersection of law and technology. Participants will gain valuable insights into the capabilities and implications of generative AI in the legal field, making it a must-attend for those looking to stay ahead in an evolving industry.
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Benjamin Alarie
Law Professor, Author, and Founder & CEO at Blue J
Benjamin is a law professor, author and entrepreneur. Prior to becoming a law professor, he completed graduate work in law and Yale Law School and a judicial clerkship at the Supreme Court of Canada. As a full-time academic he holds the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and is an affiliated faculty member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. As an entrepreneur, he is founder and CEO of Blue J, a legal technology company that is committed to leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to bring clarity to the law. As an academic researcher, he has published dozens of academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-authored several books. Since 2021, Alarie has had a regular column in Tax Notes in which he uses machine-learning to analyze and make predictions relating to pending and recently decided American tax cases. His most recent book is, The Legal Singularity: How AI Can Make Law Radically Better (University of Toronto Press, 2023).
Leslie McCallum
Founder & CEO at Lexata
Leslie McCallum is the founder of Lexata, a question answering system for capital markets regulations. Lexata is an early stage start-up whose SAAS is built on GPT-3 with a proprietary database, NLP pipeline and prompt engineering. Leslie has a deep understanding of the opportunities and risks of generative AI in the context of high stakes use cases like legal research, where outputs must be reliable if they are to have any professional or commercial value. Leslie is a securities lawyer by training who practiced at Shearman & Sterling and Torys LLP before founding Lexata. She is called to the bars of New York and Ontario and attended Columbia University (LLM) and the University of Toronto (LLB). She has served as Chair of Ontario’s Securities Advisory Committee and has been an Adjunct Professor of Securities Law at the University of Toronto.
Event Details
- Date
- March 6, 2023
- Location
- 🇺🇸 New York, United States
- Paul Weiss
- Pricing
- Free for students
- Audience
- Legal professionals, technologists, and individuals interested in legal technology and innovation.