NOAH WAISBERG is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kira Systems, whose legal AI software is used by a majority of the world's leading law firms and numerous corporations. Previously, he practiced corporate law at the firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City.

ALEXANDER HUDEK, PHD, is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kira Systems. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Previously, he made contributions to the field of bioinformatics and helped create the first public draft of human chromosome 7 as part of the human genome project.

FOREWORD xi

INTRODUCTION xiii

Part I The Point: AI in law is here to stay. It's time to take advantage 1

1 How Lawyers Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI 3

2 #DoMoreLaw: How Doing Work More Efficiently Can Create More Legal Work, Not Less 21

3 The Small Law Mindset: Bringing Biglaw Capabilities to Smaller Firms 43

4 AI: A Modern Job Creator: The New Legal Mindsets, Skill Sets, and Jobs That Are in Demand 51

5 Amplifying Legal Expertise: From One-to-One Advisory to Scalable, One-to-Many Service Delivery 71

6 The Ethics of Lawyers Using-and Not Using-AI 81

Part II The Proof: AI technologies are delivering results today 93

7 eDiscovery: What It Is and How AI Is Continuing to Transform How It Works for You 95
By Dera Nevin

8 AI in Legal Research: How AI Is Providing Everyone Access to Information and Leveling the Playing Field for Firms of All Sizes 107
By Jake Heller, Co-Founder and CEO, Casetext
Laura Safdie, Co-Founder, COO, and General Counsel, Casetext
Pablo Arredondo, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Casetext

9 Litigation Analytics: The Emergence of Analytics in Law and Why It's Now Dangerous to Practice Litigation Without Data 119
By Anthony Niblett, Co-Founder of Blue J Legal

10 Contract Review to Contract Capital: How Ubiquitous Access to Contract Analysis Software Will Transform Legal and Business Practices 131

11 Expert Systems: Self-Service Law and the Automation of Legal Question-Answering 145
By Michael Mills, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Neota Logic

Part III The Plan: Leverage data and AI to expand and future proof your practice 153

12 The AI Adoption Framework: Understanding the Adoption Path That Will Help You Get Ahead and Build the Practice of the Future 155

13 Conclusion 165

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 171

ABOUT THE AUTHORS 173

INDEX 175