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Eli Makus is the Managing Partner at Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation (VM Law), a law firm focused exclusively on neutral fact-finding services, including workplace investigations and Title IX investigations, adjudications and decision making. After years of experience litigating employment disputes and advising corporate leaders as in-house employment counsel, his practice is now focused on conducting, training and advocating on the importance of high-quality impartial workplace investigations.
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RAILS Working Group 1 has published resources on use cases for GenAI in legal to assist attorneys in communicating the opportunities for AI with clients or colleagues.
How to use the RAILS Use Cases for GenAI in Legal:
- Share the use case with a client during a meeting to help them understand why you would like their consent to use a specific tool
- Share the use case with a colleague to encourage them to explore new tool(s)
- Develop training resources based on the use case
Each entry includes: -
A concise description
- Associated benefits
- Legal industry examples
- Legal best practices
- FAQs
The resources do not, nor cannot cover every use case, in this fast evolving space. All resources are date-stamped and versioned to acknowledge the rapid pace of technological development. We hope this resource fulfills a need in the ecosystem.
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Working Group participants created one-page resources about the following use cases: |
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We anticipate publishing additional use cases as they are completed by the group. Thank you to all the WG1 members who have volunteered their time and expertise! If you’d like to draft the details of an additional use case using our template and send it to the Working Group for review and publication, you can download the MS Word template here and email it to us at rails@law.duke.edu.
The RAILS Use Cases for GenAI in Legal is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International: CC BY-NC 4.0 |
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- The Stanford Legal Design Lab is now the host of the Access to Justice Network (a community of judges, advocates, court managers, funders, librarians, researchers, technologists, and other justice professionals working to close the justice gap). The Access to Justice Network is the successor organization to the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN), and will continue to run working groups, an email list, and conferences to bring justice professionals together to share best practices, set a common agenda, and find ways to collaborate. Learn more & apply to join the Access to Justice Network here.
- Check out the new AI Guide for the Modern Legal Aid Organization, created by A2J Tech with input from the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (LSNTAP) and just published February 14, 2025. This guide aims to provide legal aid professionals with practical insights on what to consider when adding AI into an organization’s technical toolbox.
- The Thomson Reuters Institute (TRI) and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) are conducting an intensive examination of the opportunities and challenges raised by the use of AI and Generative AI solutions in the legal context, and a detailed education on AI and Generative AI's potential effects on federal/state/international courts. Visit the Thomson Reuters Institute / NCSC AI Policy Consortium for Law & Courts website and sign up for notifications.
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