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Kevin Miller, LegalSifter’s CEO, on the Role of Expertise in Contracts AI

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Ken Adams

When it comes to skills relevant to business, I’m good at one thing and pretty terrible at the rest. Kevin Miller, LegalSifter’s CEO, is good at a whole bunch of stuff; I salute him. What the heck, this week he even did this post, entitled What We Mean When We Talk About Our Expertise, on […]

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Casey Flaherty on the Limits of Incremental Improvements and “Razzle Dazzle AI”

Posted on March 16, 2020 by Ken Adams

I noted with interest Casey Flaherty’s recent post entitled The Limits of Incremental Improvements. This sentence captures the gist of it: “[O]nce you cut something in half, there is nothing you can do, save eliminating it entirely, that will ever again deliver the same raw level of improvement.” This post is on LegalSifter’s blog. To […]

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The Obligation Not to Disclose Versus the Obligation to Keep Confidential

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Ken Adams

I recently found myself once more poking around the entrails of confidentiality agreements. The issue related to one of the core obligations, namely the obligation not to disclose confidential information. (The other is the obligation not to use confidential information except as specified.) The rest of this post is on the LegalSifter blog, here.

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My Newfound Respect for Hotel Agreements

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Ken Adams

Here’s the beginning of my new post on LegalSifter’s blog: This week I had the pleasure of visiting North Falmouth, Massachusetts. (Hence the photo.) I was there to do a “Drafting Clearer Contracts” seminar for the global contracts team of a multinational. But this post isn’t about the seminar. Instead, it’s about the fact that […]

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Contract Review, Meet Contract Drafting

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Ken Adams

After almost a year working on the factory floor at LegalSifter, it has become clear to me that contract review and contract drafting are closely allied functions. … This post is on LegalSifter’s blog. To read the rest of it, go here.

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An Update on LegalSifter

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Ken Adams

Last April I told you in this post that I had become an advisor to LegalSifter, the company that’s developing software to help you review the other side’s draft contracts. What do I have to announce now? Well, nothing in particular. I’m simply continuing to do my part. In addition to doing consulting work, and roaming around giving […]

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ABA Journal Podcast and Article Featuring Yours Truly

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Ken Adams

As a follow-up to their 2009 article naming me one of their original batch of Legal Rebels, I’m featured in a new ABA Journal Legal Rebels podcast that focuses on my work with LegalSifter. And there’s also an article. You can find both of them here. The 2009 article about me is apparently no longer […]

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LegalSifter: The Medium Is Technology, But the Message Is Expertise

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Ken Adams

In some fields, the robots-running-rampant connotations of the term “artificial intelligence” might be somewhat justified. But when it comes to what LegalSifter offers—AI review of the other side’s draft contract—a dose of reality is in order. To read the rest of this post, go to LegalSifter’s blog, here.

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“Efforts” + “Endeavor” = WTF

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Ken Adams

I’ve seen more than my fair share of unfortunate drafting, but my work for LegalSifter has exposed me to a whole new level of stoopid. This post is on the LegalSifter blog. Go here to read the rest.

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The First Draft of My “Assumption of Risk” Help Text

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Ken Adams

One of my tasks at LegalSifter is to create help text for Sifters, the algorithms tasked with spotting whether a given issue is addressed in a draft contract submitted to you by a counterparty. … Because this post relates to my work as advisor for LegalSifter, the AI document-review software, I posted it on their blog. […]

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