The Tech Savvy Lawyer #53: AI in Legal Research. Interview with Damien Riehl of Fastcase
Recent advancements related to artificial intelligence have presented us with a plethora of tools we can use to optimize our workflows in many ways. In this week's episode, we dive into some of the AI-based technologies that lawyers can utilize for their legal research. Joining us today is Damien Riehl, VP of Litigation Workflow and Analytics Content at Fastcase. Damien is a technology lawyer who advises clients on tech, litigated tech issues, remediated cybersecurity issues, and developed software. He is also a musician. After working for state and federal judges and litigating for 15 years, Damien's work at Fastcase includes parsing and extracting valuable data from 700 million legal documents, interacting with AI-backed technologies to improve legal workflows and power legal data analytics, and providing substantive insights.
Join Damien and me as we discuss the following three questions and more!
- What are your three favorite tech tools that help make your workflows sing?
- What are three ways Fastcase uses technology, for example, integration research, etc., uniquely or better than its competitors?
- What three tech tools do you feel attorneys underutilize in their research and writing?
In our conversation, we cover,
[00.45] Tech setup – Damien shares his current technological setup and how he uses them.
[04.33] Surface laptop – Damien dives into what he loves about surface laptops.
[12.52] Favorite tools – Damien shares his three favorite tech tools, how he uses them, and why those are his favorite.
[18.39] Security concerns – Damien explains why he doesn't have security concerns with chrome and google.
[20.04] Cybersecurity – Strong password, keeping a password manager, use two-factor authentication are the three things that attorneys need to be aware of when it comes to cybersecurity, says Damien.
[21.58] Password managers – Damien dives into the importance of password managers and what software he uses for password managers.
[25.07] Fastcase – A legal research software company based in Washington. Damien dives into three ways Fastcase uses technology.
[35.20] Research & writing – Damien shares three tech tools that attorneys underutilize in their research and writing.
RESOURCES:
Connect with Damien:
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/damienriehl/
Twitter - twitter.com/damienriehl
YouTube - youtube.com/channel/UCGzvlbnpXo4E_H62eIGR7Tw
TED - ted.com/speakers/damien_riehl
Equipment Mentioned in the Podcast:
- Surface laptop – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface
- iPhone 7 - support.apple.com/kb/SP743?locale=en_US
- Mackie microphones - mackie.com/en/products/microphones
- In-Ear Monitor - shure.com/en-US/products/in-ear-monitoring
- Microsoft keyboard – microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/keyboards
- Logitech mice - logitech.com/en-us/products/mice.html
- Monochrome printer – brother-usa.com/black-and-white-printers#sort=relevancy
Software & Services Mentioned in the Podcast:
- Calendly - calendly.com/
- Clio - clio.com/
- Rocket matter - rocketmatter.com/
- Zapier - zapier.com/
- Trello - trello.com/home
- Chrome browser - google.com/chrome/
- Text blaze - blaze.today/
- TextExpander - textexpander.com/
- Outlook - outlook.live.com/owa/
- LastPass - lastpass.com/
- 1Password - 1password.com/
- Fastcase - fastcase.com/
- Slack - slack.com/