How Legal Tech is Leveling the Legal Playing Field, with Casetext Co-Founder Pablo Arredondo

The Co-Founder of Casetext, Pablo Arredondo, explains how legal technology that is available today will allow solos and small firms to compete against Big Law. Tim and Jeff talk with Pablo about:

• Why Artificial Intelligence—which didn’t work well for a long time—now makes it much, much easier to find the legal authority you’re looking for.
• The searches you are used to making is just “casual Friday in the keyword prison.” But now, you can put real English sentences into Casetext’s Parallel Search and it works.
• Casetext’s A.I. isn’t limited to legal authority: you’ll be able to put your entire case file into a database and search for the evidence that supports the key facts in your case.
• This gives small firms an alternative to deploying armies of staff to find evidence in a voluminous file.
• Using Casetext’s Compose to create a first draft of a brief in a few minutes.
• A.I. might be able to replicate “murder boards” in the future for attorneys preparing for oral argument.
• In fact, the way “neural net” A.I. works is so impressive, Pablo describes it as a “black box,” and sometimes it is hard to describe what it does without using words like “thinking.”

Pablo Arredondo’s biography and LinkedIn profile.

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Other items discussed in the episode:

• Casetext
• Parallel Search
• Compose
• Genius Makers, by Cade Metz
• LexisNexis’s LexMachina analytics platform