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“We used AI for what may be its first reported use during a complex commercial trial.” So begins Holly Zheng of White & Case LLP in today’s Bloomberg Law article. Timothy J. Fraser and the legal team at Toshiba America proposed the project to the White & Case trial team ahead of a six-week jury trial, using the Eudia platform to build and train a custom AI system around the demands of the case. We’re grateful to Toshiba America and White & Case for trusting Eudia to help make this possible, and for demonstrating what happens when legal expertise and AI are brought together in the work itself. A remarkable milestone for the teams involved. And hopefully the first of many. Read the Bloomberg Law article at the link below. https://lnkd.in/dyiyYKsv

Today, we're excited to announce a strategic partnership with OpenAI. Government Legal and Acquisition teams are responsible for some of the most consequential work in the world. Eudia’s Expert Digital Twins and AI agents are already deployed in government, with field-tested, proven impact at the U.S. Air Force. OpenAI is the world's leading AI research and deployment company, with frontier models that define the state of the art in reasoning. Together, we will bring advanced AI capabilities to contracting officers, legal counsel, and program managers across agencies, advancing our shared conviction that the next frontier of AI value in government and regulated industries will not be won by AI that replaces human expertise, but by AI that amplifies it. Read the full press release in the comments.

The 80/20 rule is collapsing. In its place: a Super-Pareto Principle. 5% of expert judgments driving 95% of an organization's outcomes. One customer I've worked with has a 600-person legal team, and thought they needed to scale their top 120. The actual decision data said 30. Thirty people holding the judgment the entire department runs on. With the Expert Digital Twin, that judgment now scales to everyone. The Pareto Principle held for 125 years. The data says it is no longer valid. Oz Benamram posed a sharp question: which AI captures expert judgment, and which just accelerates generic output? On the latter, Zack Shapiro recently called out the "Juicero-ification" of legal tech where he argued that popular legal AI tools are expensive wrappers squeezing a generic LLM, and that customers should not pay a significantly higher price for these when they can go directly to the LLM. The question we heard our customers asking is different: now that we have expert digital twins, whose judgment do we want to scale? The paper below gives the answer. More on this in the weeks ahead. I've also linked to Zack Shapiro's controversial post questioning the value of most 'legaltech' in the first comment. Thanks to James Sheppard, Andrew Brereton, Amber Moren, David Cowen, Matthew Lucas, Russ Elmer, Tim Guleri, Hiep Pham, Kerry McLean, Stephanie Fleischman Cherny, Susan Brichler Trujillo, Katherine Canney Tarvestad JD, Desislava Avramova, Thomas Burton, Matt Geekie, Dr. Megan Ma, Timothy J. Fraser, and Holly (Tao) Zheng for sharing their thoughts at the event.

Looking forward to attending Eudia's Lighthouse Customer Forum in Phoenix on March 23-25! Eager to participate in the (r)evolution of the inhouse legal function.

I'm speaking at Eudia's Lighthouse Forum next week in Arizona! Excited to join an incredible group of legal professionals and innovators to discuss how AI is transforming legal practice, from in-house teams to outside counsel partnerships. Looking forward to great conversations, connecting with the in-house legal community, and continuing to shape the future of legal AI.