How will you tell the difference?
I would have been much more interested if it were the other way around.
Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
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Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#52In the meantime..... https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07328
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#53Headline is a little misleading. We started LTS, our legal tech company, with the goal of helping lawyers provide legal services to startups in a more speedy, transparent and price predicable way. To us, that means building tools that lawyers use, and not creating the Uber of lawyers or a master AI that replaces lawyers (I don't think the latter is possible right now). Atrium, the law firm founded by two of my LTS co…
> Headline is a little misleading I guess you can't say "Your article hits a factual error before it even begins" to the Washington Post, huh.
I don't see why you can't. Most of their articles do that. Truth is often mundane, people wouldn't click through.
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#54Headline is a little misleading. We started LTS, our legal tech company, with the goal of helping lawyers provide legal services to startups in a more speedy, transparent and price predicable way. To us, that means building tools that lawyers use, and not creating the Uber of lawyers or a master AI that replaces lawyers (I don't think the latter is possible right now). Atrium, the law firm founded by two of my LTS co…
Justin – I reached out a couple times but had not heard back.
I'm an international lawyer and savvy developer (currently maintaining knockout.js) and have had a lean/quiet startup for several years now in the legal-augmentation tech space.
We're in the process of partnering with the world's largest law firms.
Feel free to drop me a line - brianmhunt at gmail.com
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#55Headline is a little misleading. We started LTS, our legal tech company, with the goal of helping lawyers provide legal services to startups in a more speedy, transparent and price predicable way. To us, that means building tools that lawyers use, and not creating the Uber of lawyers or a master AI that replaces lawyers (I don't think the latter is possible right now). Atrium, the law firm founded by two of my LTS co…
EDIT: HN title has been corrected.
So this needs a change from
"Startup wants to replace lawyers with robots"
to
"Startup wants to augment lawyers with automation"
?
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#56Headline is a little misleading. We started LTS, our legal tech company, with the goal of helping lawyers provide legal services to startups in a more speedy, transparent and price predicable way. To us, that means building tools that lawyers use, and not creating the Uber of lawyers or a master AI that replaces lawyers (I don't think the latter is possible right now). Atrium, the law firm founded by two of my LTS co…
Both job links 404.
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
We raised $10.5M for our legal technology company, Legal Technology Services (LTS). My cofounders of LTS who are lawyers, Augie Rakow and BeBe Chueh, started a firm called Atrium LLP. Atrium LLP is LTS' first customer, and allows us to reduce our development cycle on building that software. I am not a partner at Atrium LLP (and am not a lawyer, nor do I give legal advice). It's a complex story that has been a little…
Quick question: for jury selection, do trial lawyers used a statistically tested line of inquiry for prospective jurors, or is it just seat-of-the-pants, intuition based selection?
Somewhere in between. In many federal cases, there is little "picking" allowed. And where picking is allowed, it's mostly intuition.
In large cases, jury consultants have typically been hired to use their intuition, with a scientific-sounding gloss, so the lawyers and corporate managers have someone to blame if something goes wrong. They were famous for proposing questions that were supposed to tip you off to something important, like "Does anyone here regularly fill out a crossword puzzle?" Given the tiny samples, it was difficult to have scientific questions, or to prove that the questions were bunk. (I am less jaded about trial consultants, who deal with argumentation, compared to the 'jury consultant' industry -- which famously gave us Dr. Phil).
In today's mega-cases, the money is spent on rapid profiling of the potential jurors' actual opinions, using their public-facing social media. There's still lots of armchair psychology, but not as much based on bullcrap questions.
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#58Headline is a little misleading. We started LTS, our legal tech company, with the goal of helping lawyers provide legal services to startups in a more speedy, transparent and price predicable way. To us, that means building tools that lawyers use, and not creating the Uber of lawyers or a master AI that replaces lawyers (I don't think the latter is possible right now). Atrium, the law firm founded by two of my LTS co…
Headlines are almost guaranteed to be misleading. That's why I click on the comments before the article. Sensationalism should not be rewarded.
I'm finding that the top few comments here are often more informative and better supported than at least half of the actual posted articles. To be clear, I see that as an endorsement of HN more than anything else.
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#59First they came for the bodegas, and I did not speak out.
Re: Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services
#60If this is an example of scratching one's own itch, Justin Kan needs new hobbies. Consider how much you have to interact with lawyers in order to want to automate them. "I’ve raised money. I’ve done a merger. I’ve been sued. And yet every time, bills would pile up and I had no clear idea what I was paying for. In Silicon Valley, we want everything to be transparent." From the sound of the story, their competition is…
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