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SKILLS 2024 Showcase

skills 2024 SHOWCASE aGENDA

Thursday, January 18, 2024, Eastern Time


10:00 AM Introduction by Oz Benamram


10:10 GenAI – One Year In The Trenches 

  • Panelists Lydia Petrakis, Microsoft, Darth  Vaughn and Whitney Stefko, Ford Motor, moderated by Casey Flaherty, LexFusion


10:50 GenAI Showcases moderated by Lucy Dillon


    1. AI-powered Law Practice: From data to innovation

  • Katherine Lowry and Elaine Dick, BakerHostetler


    2. A law firm’s generative AI journey 

  • Barbara Taylor, Elisabeth Cappuyns, Sunny Bane, and Emily Florio, DLA Piper


    3. Redefining Knowledge Search with Generative AI you can trust

  • David Oser, Homburger, and Paulina Grnarova, DeepJudge


11:30  20-minute Breakout Room Discussion (not available on live stream)


11:50  10-minute Break


12:00 PM  Data-Driven Innovation

  • Kate Orr, Orrick, and Nicole Bradick, Theory & Principle


12:15  Data-Driven Innovation Showcases moderated by Tanisha Little


   4. Goodwin Catalyst- Our Data-Driven Approach to Client Service 

  • Maria Koury, Goodwin


   5. Dynamic Dashboards: Putting your data to work

  • Sunny Bane, DLA Piper 


    6.  How to use KPIs and data analytics to tell your success story

  • Judy MacKenzie Stuart,  Hayley Harris, and Colette Shuler, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner


12:55 20-minute Breakout Room Discussion (not available on live stream)


1:15 30-minute Interactive Networking Lunch, including a review of the full SKILLS survey results (live-streamed)


1:45 Trial, Fail, Better: Improving Legal Tech Adoption in Law Firms

  • Cem Ucan and Angela Cairns, Baker McKenzie 


 2:00  Adoption, Automation & Innovation Showcases moderated by Nick Pryor


    7. Robots vs. AI: The Future of Document Automation at Dechert

  • Thor Alden, Dechert and  Samuel Smolkin, Office & Dragons 


    8. APIs plus AI = Next-Gen Dinger System

  • Evan Shenkman and  Jennifer Mendez, Fisher Phillips


    9.  Unlocking Success: How Burges Salmon Revamped Their KMS

  • Carol Aldridge, Burges Salmon, Alex Smith, and Matthew Simpson, iManage  


    10. Harnessing AI for Enhanced Experience Data Collection

  • Kristina Bakardjiev, Cozen O'Connor, Sean Monahan, and Sarah Happy, Harbor


2:50  Breakout Room Discussion (not available on live stream)


3:10  Closing Remarks and Networking Hour (for registered attendees only)


4:00  End

Skills 2024- Gen AI: ONe year in the trenches

Showcase sessions

1. AI-Powered Law Practice: From Data to Innovation | BakerHOSTETLER

Katherine Lowry and Elaine Dick


2. A LAW FIRM'S GENERATIVE AI JOURNEY | DLA Piper


Elisabeth Cappuyns, Barbara Taylor, Sunny Bane, and Emily Florio

3. Redefining Knowledge Search with Generative AI You Can Trust | HOMBURGER

David Oser and Paulina Grnarova

DATA-DRIVEN INNOVATION | Orrick

 Kate Orr, Orrick, and Nicole Bradick, Theory & Principle

4. Goodwin Catalyst- A Data-drive approach to client service

Maria Koury

5. DYNAMIC DASHBOARDS: PUTTING YOUR DATA TO WORK | DLA PIPER

Sunny Bane

6. Telling A success story with KPI's and Data | BCLP

Judy Mackenzie Stuart, Hayley Harris, and Colette Schuler

Trial, Fail, Better: Improving Legal Tech Adoption in Law Firms | Baker McKenzie

Cem Ucan and Angela Cairns

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7. Robots vs ai: the future of document automation | dechert

Thor Alden and Samuel Smolkin

8. API+AI= nextgen dinger system | FiSHER Phillips

Evan Shenkman and Jennifer Mendez

9. Unlocking success: How Burges Salmon REvamped their KM's

Carol Aldridge, Alex Smith, and Matthew Simpson

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10. Harnessing AI for enhanced Experience Data Collection | Cozen O'Connor

Kristina Bakardjiev, Sean Monahan and Sarah Happy

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DECHERT + MAcro team up on LLM+ RAG Integration

Thor Alden- Dechert

Jacob Beckerman- Macro


Macro's engineering team worked with Thor Alden at Dechert to design and implement an LLM chat integration. In our talk, we discuss how we addressed security and data retention issues, and how we handled hallucinations using Macro's parsing algorithms to pre- and post-process answers using a process known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). 

COUNTER-INTUITIVE COLLABORATION

James Arnold- Dentons

India Preston- Lupl


In this session, we will spotlight the Denton's unconventional, yet successful, strategies for implementing new technologies across various practice groups, with a special focus on collaborations with startups like Lupl. We emphasize the critical role of focusing on use cases (rather than features), nurturing partnerships with champions at the firm, and the value can be unlocked by leaning into the collaborative vendor-client relationship. 

Attorney Project Management Implementation

Naveen Pai- Gunderson Dettmer

Brent Armitage- Gunderson Dettmer

Ben Rosales- Gunderson Dettmer

Mat Rotenberg- Dashboard Legal


Gunderson lawyers wanted better ways to get organized and collaborate on matters and Dashboard Legal was the right fit to help solve their needs. The result was incredible adoption via a phased rollout with feedback and product updates built into the pilot program which has now been deployed firm-wide.  

GAMIFICATION OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Cindy Bare- Frost Brown Todd

Casey Rauschenberg- Frost Brown Todd




Frost Brown Todd has gamified its change management approach to increase adoption of new tools. Key elements of this approach are the power of focus, data literacy, and firm culture in support of change.

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