LegalAIIA 2021

We are pleased to invite you to attend the 2nd International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA).

The 1st edition of the LegalAIIA Workshop was held in Montreal, Canada in 2019 and is the successor to the DESI workshop which started at ICAIL 2007 in Palo Alto.

Venue: Federal Court Building, Sao Paolo, Brazil (now online)

Date: Monday, 21 June 2021

Time zone: All times are given below in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) (US)

Registration (no fee): https://icail.lawgorithm.com.br/registration/

Proceedings: http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-2888/

Notes from Breakout Session: https://sites.google.com/view/legalaiia-2021/breakout-session-notes

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Full-day LegalAIIA Workshop Schedule

Session 0: ICAIL Conference Opening

Use main conference Openfy link for this session (distributed via email)

0930 Grand Opening & Industry Session

1100 Best Paper Award Ceremony

(See ICAIL Programme for details: https://icail.lawgorithm.com.br/programme/ )

Session 1: Morning Introduction & Keynote Address

Use main LegalAIIA workshop Zoom link for this session and all sessions to follow (distributed via email)

1130 Welcome and goals: Jack Conrad /Jeremy Pickens

With introductions to the other organizers, Jyothi Vinjumur, Dan Linna, Hans Henseler, Jason Baron

1140 Opening AI Keynote: Introduction: Jack Conrad

Dr. Kris Hammond (Northwestern University):

"Humanizing the Machine with Language: Building the Bridge between Data and Information"

1225 Q&A Session with Discussant David Lewis (Reveal Data)

Session 2: Ideation / Application Paper Talks (Chair: Hans Henseler) (20 min each + 5 min for questions)

1245 Sebastian Schwemer, Letizia Tomada, Tommaso Pasini (Univ. of Copenhagen):

"Legal AI Systems in the EU's proposed Artificial Intelligence Act"

1310 Florence Ogonjo, Joseph Theuri Gitonga, Angeline Wairegi, Isaac Rutenberg (Strathmore University):

"Utilizing AI to Improve Efficiency of the Environment and Land Court in the Kenya Judiciary:

Leveraging AI Capabilities in Land Dispute Cases in the Kenyan Environmental and Land Court System"

Break (1335-1350)

N.B. : A poll will be taken at the start of this break to help us structure the Breakout sessions to take place following the panel.

The Breakout session topics will include:

• How AI is Changing the Legal Profession

• AI & Access to Justice

• The Human Role in AI

• The Role of Deep Learning in the Evolving Legal Space

• The Future of E-Discovery

Session 3: Industrial Panel (Chairs: Jyothi Vinjumur & Dan Linna)

A Panel of International Subject Matter Experts on Legal AI and IA in Practice: Today and the Future

1350 Panel Participants:

• Pablo Arredondo (Casetext)

• David Marcos (Microsoft)

• Irina Matveeva (Reveal Data)

• Julian Tsisin (Facebook)

Session 4: Breakout Discussion - Law Practice 2030

1450 Participants to join breakout groups based on a topic of their choice

1530 Reports from Breakout Groups

Break (1600-1615)

Session 5: Afternoon Keynote Address

1615 Concluding Intelligent Assistance Keynote: Introduction: Jeremy Pickens

Michelle Zhou (Juji, Inc.):

"Democratizing AI for Legal Professionals: Creating Cognitive AI Legal Assistants with No Coding"

1700 Q&A Session with Discussant Bruce Hedin (H5)

Session 6: Research Paper Talks (Chair: Jyothi Vinjumur) (20 min each + 5 min for questions)

1720 Jeremy Pickens, Thomas C. Gricks III, Esq. (OpenText) :

"On the Effectiveness of Portable Models versus Human Expertise under Continuous Active Learning"

Session 7: Closing Remarks

1745 Closing Remarks, Announcements, Action Items

1800 END

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Additional Information about the Sessions

• Invited Talks

  • Dr. Kris Hammond (Northwestern University), AI-related topic

  • Dr. Michelle Zhou (Juji, Inc.), Intelligent Assistance-related topic

    • For Bios & Abstracts, see https://sites.google.com/view/legalaiia-2021/invited-talks

• Paper Presentations (Final List)

  • Ideation Papers

    • Legal AI Systems in the EU's proposed Artificial Intelligence Act

      • Sebastian Felix Schwemer, Letizia Tomada, Tommaso Pasini

        • University of Copenhagen

  • Application Papers

    • Utilizing AI to Improve Efficiency of the Environmental and Land Court in the Kenyan Judiciary: Leveraging AI Capabilities in Land Dispute Cases in the Kenyan Environmental and Land Court System

      • Florence Ogonjo, Joseph Theuri Gitonga, Angeline Wairegi, Isaac Rutenberg

        • Strathmore University

  • Research Papers

    • On the Effectiveness of Portable Models versus Human Expertise under Continuous Active Learning

      • Jeremy Pickens, Thomas C. Gricks III, Esq.

        • OpenText

• Panel Discussion

  • Organizers: Daniel W. Linna, Jr., Northwestern University and Jyothi Vinjumur, Walmart Labs

  • Participants:

    • Pablo Arredondo (Casetext)

    • Irina Matveeva (Reveal Data)

    • David Marcos (Microsoft, Responsible AI Compliance by Design)

    • Julian Tsisin (Facebook)

• • Topic of Panel Discussion: Legal AI and IA in Practice: Today and the Future

  • Hype about data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligence Augmentation shows no sign of slowing. Abundant examples illustrate how these technologies are transforming industries. What about the legal industry? While technology assisted review is revolutionizing e-discovery and due diligence, will these technologies transform other aspects of legal services? This panel brings together industry experts to discuss how legal services organizations are making the most of data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Intelligence Augmentation. Our panelists will discuss bridging the gap between strategy and implementing these technologies, the need for interdisciplinary teams, high-impact tools today, the challenges, and where they see these technologies having the greatest impact in the next five to ten years.

  • Session Description: This panel will 45 minutes long. This panel session begins with the moderator introducing the speakers followed by each of our 4/5 speakers give a 2-minute overview of their current work and engagement in the field of Legal AI and IA (10-12 minutes). Following the introductions, the panel moderator will have 4-6 questions which each of the 4 speakers will be given the opportunity to answer (30 minutes). We conclude the panel session with a few questions from audience if time permits.

  • Illustrative Questions

    • Regarding the intersection and collaboration of Technology (AI/IA) and Legal Professional, how widespread is the Adoption of AI and Analytics in your organization? Who is involved? How do you get started?

    • How do you bridge the gap between Strategy and AI/IA techniques? In your professional experience, can you explain where a data-driven decision making did not make sense and why? How do strategic partnerships between Legal, Engineering and Policy teams work in your organization?

    • Intelligent Automation and AI relies on a strong synergy between human adoption and a robust technology platform. What are the big challenges to watch out for and the key capabilities that enterprises need, to gain an operational edge? Follow-up question - How do you measure success in such systems?

    • Future State Question: How do you see the Legal-AI partnership, law education and AI adoption evolve in the next 5 years? Looking back, what do you with you had learnt in the past?

• Breakout Session

  • Organizer: Jason R. Baron, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

  • Title: Law Practice in the year 2030: What should we expect?

  • A tradition at the LegalAIIA and predecessor DESI workshops has been the opportunity to discuss in smaller groups an overarching topic of interest to the greater workshop, with a "reporter" from each breakout subgroup serving as one of the final panelists. For the Second LegalAIIA workshop, we will be asking breakout group participants to imagine law practice in the year 2030:

    • What will rapidly developing technological capabilities mean for the delivery of legal services?

    • Will they enable greater access to legal systems, or serve to only widen present disparities?

    • And to what extent will AI/IA otherwise render certain traditional legal tasks to be unnecessary?

Registration

https://icail.lawgorithm.com.br/registration/

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From LegalAIIA 2019:

Session 1: Morning Keynote Address

0900 Welcome and goals: Jack Conrad /Jeremy Pickens

With introductions to the other organizers, Jason Baron and Hans Henseler, and thanks to Amanda Jones who wasn't able to join us in Montreal

0910 Author Commercials (3 authors @ 1 minute each - no slides)

Introduction of First Keynote: J.R. Baron

0915 Nicolas Economou:

"Principles for the Trustworthy Adoption of AI in Legal Systems: the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems"

1015 Discussant: Dominic Jaar [KPMG - ABA Tech] (confirmed)

1030 Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Session 2: Morning Talks (Chair: Hans Henseler)

1045 Simon Attfield, “An Approach to Human-Machine Teaming in Legal Investigations Using Anchored Narrative Visualization and Machine Learning”

1105 Andrew Mowbray, “Utilising AI in the Legal Assistance Sector”

1125 Rachel Rietveld, “Distilling Jurisprudence through Argument Mining for Case Assessment”

Session 3: Facilitated Session [Part 1 -- Introduction to Facilitated Session] (Chair: J. R. Baron)

Discussion Leaders: Simon Attfield, C.J. Mahoney, Alexis Mitchell, Andrew Mowbray, Rachel Rietveld (no. may depend on total no. of attendees)

1145 Establishing Trust in AI and IA: Candidate Topics: Transparency, Accountability, Effectiveness, Competence, …

1215 Lunch Break [Part 2 of Facilitated Session] (Chair: J. R. Baron)

Lunch Table Discussion Leaders: Simon Attfield, C.J. Mahoney, Alexis Mitchell, Andrew Mowbray, Rachel Rietveld

1350 Author Commercials (3 authors @ 1 minute each - no slides)

Session 4: Afternoon Keynote Address (Chair: Jeremy Pickens)

1400 Bennett B. Borden:

“Revolutionizing the Practice of Law Through Data Science: Use Cases and Applications”

1500 Discussant: C.J. Mahoney [Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP] (confirmed)

1515 Coffee Break (15 minutes)

Session 5: Afternoon Talks (Chair: Jeremy Pickens)

1530 Christian J. Mahoney, “Evaluation of Seed Set Selection Approaches and Active Learning Strategies in Predictive Coding”

1550 Hans Henseler, “Technology assisted analysis of timeline and connections in digital forensic investigations”

1610 Kamil Tylinski, “Pre-trained Contextual Embeddings for Litigation Code Classification”

Session 6: Lunch Table Reports & Panel Discussion (Chair: Jack G. Conrad)

1630 Lunch Table Reports and Panel Discussion

1715 Final Thoughts on Next Steps / Action Items

1730 Adjourn

1800 ICAIL Monday Evening Reception