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t the risk of being cliché, doesn't it seem as though
we were just in December 2023? Calendar year
2024 whizzed by!
We wrap up 2024 and kick off 2025 with an issue
that is top of mind for many legal tech leaders, whether in law
departments, law firms, or tech providers. In this issue of Peer to
Peer, we are focusing on Taxonomy, Data, Governance, and AI…
Oh My!
Oh, My, indeed.
Let 's take these words in pairs and highlight some of the key
conversations taking place.
AI AND GOVERNANCE.
The increased use of AI-enabled tools, as well as the advent of
- and hype around – Gen AI (happy second bir thday, ChatGPT)
has evolved, and in some cases transformed, application
governance. Organizations without tech committees were seen
to form specific committees of law yers to discuss the ethical
implications of Gen AI in the practice of law. In other instances,
organizations with a tech committee added an AI committee.
For nearly all organizations with whom I have spoken, the
information governance function is now a well-established par t
of the application vetting and implementation planning teams
for legal tech. We are char ting this brave new world together.
DATA AND AI.
Garbage in, garbage out. Are you willing to perform a fearless
inventory of your data before embarking on a major Gen AI
project? This is the time.
GOVERNANCE AND DATA.
How many of your applications are associated with data? Where is
that data? Is it discoverable? What about retention? Governance
Joy Heath Rush
joy@iltanet.org
