Industry Luminaries Blazing a Trail for AI Adoption
AI Visionaries is an annual list of early adopters in legal, compliance, and risk who are playing a seminal role in advancing the use of AI in their organizations.
2023 AI Visionaries
Law firms face a constant responsibility to weigh the art and science of when, and to what extent, we use Al. We do not invest in Al just because it is available. We invest in Al that is aligned with the professional and ethical duty to serve the best interests of our clients.
Sarah Alt
Chief Business Process Officer
Sarah Alt
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The law is about the pursuit of truth. Today, there is an incredible opportunity to capture evidence in ways that did not exist before, but also require additional resources—AI—to help assemble that evidence in a way that points humans toward the truth.
Jessica Anderson
Principal, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP's Discovery & Data Management practice
Jessica Anderson
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Twenty-first century corporations--and humans--create a lot of data. And new data types are redefining what it means to be a document. AI matters for ensuring e-discovery is done in the most efficient manner, utilizing tools that shrink data sets, find relevant information faster, and organize data into more practical buckets.
Emily Collins
Information Governance Attorney
Emily Collins
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AI cannot do everything. But it works really well on the tasks that require the most labor and the least legal judgment. By using AI, we can reduce human stress, burnout, and turnover, and instead allow our talented attorneys to focus on the kinds of problems that drew people into the profession in the first place.
Benjamin Dryden
Partner and Vice Chair of the Antitrust Partner Group
Josh Zylbershlag is director of e-discovery services at Paul, Weiss, and an ardent supporter of AI and machine learning. He established the firm’s e-Discovery Analytics and Review Technology Team, which comprises AI experts who work with lawyers and clients to help them harness the power of new technologies.
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Although it is very exciting to look at AI as a solution to everything, it is a lot better in the long run to carefully consider problems and then their particular solutions, rather than trying to have a solution first and then find problems that fit the solution.
Matthew Golab
Director of Legal Informatics and R&D
Matthew Golab
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Technology transforms how lawyers work. Automating time-intensive processes creates opportunities for people to focus on innovation, advice, and strategic initiatives. At the same time, we have an ethical responsibility to understand the risks and benefits of this technology.
Daniel Gold
Managing Director of the Enterprise E-Discovery Managed Services Practice
Daniel Gold
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Leveraging AI can free us up to use our big human brains--which computers don't have, now or in the future--to solve even bigger problems and challenges. It helps prevent the fatigue that results from these repetitive tasks in our work environment and deliver results faster.
Chris Haley
Managing Director of Technology for Troutman Pepper eMerge
Chris Haley
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When you go and collect five million records, what in the world are you going to do with all of it? As an example, we had over two-and-a-half years of consecutive video from Iraq. So what do you do with it? You simply need to use AI technologies to get through that.
David Hasman
Information Governance Attorney
David Hasman
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We are still at the beginning of this transformation. Maybe not the very beginning, but we're still in the early stages of seeing how technology will continue to reshape our world and legal practice. There is plenty of innovation and disruption to come, and I choose to look at that as a positive when the goal is to make things better.
Ruth Hauswirth
Special Counsel and Head of Litigation and e-Discovery Services
Ruth Hauswirth
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The power of technology, innovation, and AI is essential for moving your company forward, strengthening your brand, and enhancing your future.
Sadie Khodorkovsky
Global Head of Legal Discovery
Sadie Khodorkovsky
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Before you even think about investing in AI, consider your broader business strategy and priorities and the challenges or opportunities that you want to address. Map out your business requirements, start small, and don't forget about change management.
Lisa Kozaris
Chief Innovation and Legal Solutions Officer
Lisa Kozaris
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What we need more of in AI adoption is confidence, and a desire to pursue these things. Teams have to get out and do this first. Just get started and try it. That confidence level will be built up. Change your mindset and think of how technology can harness the information in your data instead of how it might threaten you.
Craig Macaulay
Data Scientist
Craig Macaulay
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Most organizations who successfully adopt AI don't have a top-down mandate. It's usually one or two people or departments who start experimenting in a small way--a very defined, narrow scope with limited risk of disruption. From that small innovation, they understand the return and start finding more projects. So, my advice is: start small and focused. And lilypad from there.
Lia Majid
Chief Executive Officer
Lia Majid
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As AI takes over more of the mundane tasks in the legal industry, attorney work will become much more substantive, interesting, and engaging--and I look forward to that happening!
William McDermod
e-Discovery Counsel
William McDermod
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It seems increasingly clear that generative AI isn't just going to be a fun parlor trick or relegated to standalone apps, but rather embedded in our core tool sets for human communication and analysis. When the moment is right, I will welcome a future in which AI is just "there," as inevitable as Thanos but without the unfortunate death wish for half the galaxy.
Farrah Pepper
Chief Legal Innovation Counsel
Farrah Pepper
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Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration! Reach out and talk to someone you have never met and learn about the ways they are using AI. You may be surprised by what you learn and how it can be applied to your industry, program, or project.
Sarah Sawvell
Global e-discovery Program Manager
Sarah Sawvell is the global e-discovery program manager in Honeywell's Litigation Center of Excellence. In her role, she is responsible for managing, optimizing, and supporting the e-discovery response for litigation.
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You don't build muscle by watching someone else lift weights. You wouldn't watch a bunch of videos of people deadlifting, and then walk into a gym and expect to lift the heaviest weight on your first go. Think about engaging with emerging technologies as a practice--in the same way you practice the law.
Bonnie Shaw
Co-founder and Chief Impact Officer
Bonnie Shaw
Place Intelligence
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Law firms are uniquely positioned to help clients drive AI adoption, with document sets perfect for testing. Offering clients the ability to test AI use cases with limited financial investment improves the chances of awareness and adoption, and improves our chances of identifying the strongest and most promising AI players in the market.
Michelle Six
Partner
Michelle Six
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I believe that enthusiasm is contagious. When I have animated and excited exchanges with other lawyers about all of the opportunities that AI has brought to our clients, I hope they walk away wanting to do the same.
Susan Wortzman
President and Partner
Susan Wortzman
