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2 W elcome to the Spring 2026 issue of Peer to Peer! This issue is full of articles examining different aspects of AI maturity. ChatGPT turned three last fall- definitely a precocious toddler. However, given how fast this market has changed in that time, we should probably be talking in dog years! I will not claim to be a virtuoso user of GenAI -- and do not even mention building agents! -- but I am fortunate to participate in numerous conversations with leaders in our community who are wrestling with policy, technology, and business issues. Some of the topics that are coming up regularly: ADJUSTING TO A WHOLE NEW VOCABULARY -- AND REMEMBERING IT DOES NOT ONLY APPLY TO OUR OWN WORK At an event I attended last year, a large company in Europe displayed a slide showing 16 distinct areas of law where AI was contributing to significant legal challenges for the company. Our lawyers, whether in law firms or law departments, are being asked to write agreements, litigate matters, file for IP protection, and more in a whole new world. We are asking our lawyers to master certain aspects of our tech vocabulary -- RAG hallucination, token, prompt, and many others. They need this vocabulary to use the tools we provide -- but also to analyze and address legal problems. PREDICTIVE MODEL VS. MATCHING MODEL I hate to confess that I was around when firms first started implementing computer-based legal research. Lawyers adopted it quickly. The search logic was easy. The computer looked for certain words, sometimes in proximity to other words. You could easily explain why the search surfaced a set of results, because it was matching on steroids. The same exact query with the same exact document population would yield the same results. Dear ILTAns, Happy 2026! It is hard to believe that we are already a quarter of the way through the year! JOY HEATH RUSH CEO, ILTA joy@iltanet.org FROM THE CEO

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