AI Visionaries

Matthew Golab—director of legal informatics and R&D at Gilbert + Tobin—knows that the strategic use of AI frees up time and energy that will enable lawyers to work more efficiently and more thoughtfully for their clients.

Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and collaboration is an essential key to success in the legal realm. For Chris Haley, this knowledge has helped him establish some important habits over the course of his career.

AI adoption, says Jessica Anderson at Deloitte, is not about one big bang, but rather a series of deliberate steps that add up over time.

Matthew Golab—director of legal informatics and R&D at Gilbert + Tobin—knows that the strategic use of AI frees up time and energy that will enable lawyers to work more efficiently and more thoughtfully for their clients.

Innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and collaboration is an essential key to success in the legal realm. For Chris Haley, this knowledge has helped him establish some important habits over the course of his career.

AI adoption, says Jessica Anderson at Deloitte, is not about one big bang, but rather a series of deliberate steps that add up over time.

AI Visionary Michelle Six, partner at Kirkland & Ellis, believes innovative e-discovery teams are positioned for greater success in the near term as technology continues to evolve in the face of explosive data volumes.

When Susan Wortzman founded MT>3, now a division of McCarthy Tétrault, she knew that adaptability, innovation, and a super fast pace were key to delivering unique and highly effective solutions to her clients.

Asking attorneys to do the same thing over and over is inefficient, expensive, and, frankly, boring. For William McDermod at Boehringer Ingelheim, there’s a much better way to practice law these days: with AI.

The bright future of AI is just beginning, according to Honeywell Global eDiscovery Program Manager Sarah Sawvell.

For Daniel Gold at BDO, AI is the clear path forward for the more efficient, thoughtful, and just practice of law. But it isn’t as easy as pressing go when you need to get colleagues and clients on board with new technology.

Benjamin Dryden, partner and vice chair of the antitrust partner group at Foley & Lardner, unashamedly calls himself a Luddite. But, he says, adopting and applying AI doesn’t take a technologist, or even a technology lover.

e-Discovery wasn’t on the radar for Emily Collins—information governance attorney at Southwest Airlines—at the start of her career. But once she discovered how technology was rapidly evolving this burgeoning area of law, she was eager to jump in.

Allens Chief Innovation & Legal Solutions Officer Lisa Kozaris makes no bones about it: for her firm, AI is business as usual.

Sadie Khodorkovsky at JPMorgan Chase makes no bones about it: organizations who aren’t ready and willing to dive deep into the potentials of using technology and innovation, including AI, will fall behind.