Industry Luminaries Blazing a Trail for AI Adoption
AI Visionaries is Relativity's annual list of early adopters in legal, compliance, and risk who are playing a seminal role in advancing the use of AI in their organizations.
2022 AI Visionaries
Nelson Mullins
Morgan Lewis
GSK
Foley & Lardner LLP
Reed Smith
Molina Healthcare
Crowell & Moring
Dentons
Morrison & Foerster
Ballard Spahr
BLG
Holland & Knight
Carnival Corporation
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Paul, Weiss
Troutman Pepper
Honeywell
BASF
Nutter
IQVIA
AstraZeneca
Citrix
Troutman Pepper
BakerHostetler
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Mayer Brown
Genentech
Boehringer Ingelheim
Morgan Lewis
Westpac Group
Starbucks
Cravath Swaine & Moore
SBO; formerly Airbnb, Twitter, and Zynga
Walgreens
Novartis
QUALCOMM
Novartis
Boehringer Ingelheim
White & Case
Orrick
Medtronic
Collibra
Crowell & Moring
Perkins Coie LLP
Uber
Paul, Weiss
Focusing on technology and data has really allowed me to grow with a growing industry. We're creating the case law, finding differentiators, and helping our clients expect and achieve more.
Mallory Acheson
Head of Practice Innovation
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The use of machine learning technologies has enabled us to essentially quadruple the size of our practice without adding additional people.
Tess Blair
Partner, Litigation
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We are accountable to the justice system and our clients to establish ethical and expedient ways of working. AI can help us fulfill our obligations to support the fair and judicious resolution of matters.
Kelly Clay
Assistant General Counsel and Global E-Discovery Counsel
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AI tools are a force multiplier. They provide a competitive advantage, allowing us to get to the truth faster and to minimize risk.
Nick Cole
Director if Litigation Support
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AI is not about ceding control; it's about harnessing technology to help us do our jobs better.
Selina Coleman
Partner
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Through the use of AI, it can be demonstrated clearly and emphatically that many legal problems can now be solved faster, more accurately, and at less cost than using manual processes.
Dan Cooperman
Board Member
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AI and other technologies can provide a great lift and means to distinguish yourself from the masses.
John Davis
Senior Counsel
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Lawyers tend to be risk-averse and slow to change. The vanguard adopters have to blaze a trail.
Ausra Deluard
Co-Chair, Dentons U.S. Competition and Antitrust Group
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Looking at segments of our society that have been overlooked and finding ways for them to be included into mainstream products--that is where technology and AI can play a big role.
Maria Earley
Partner
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The opportunity to leverage AI to bring unconscious bias to the surface can have a significant impact on creating a more equitable, fair performance review process.
Virginia Essandoh
Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
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Widespread use of AI in our daily lives creates more data that needs to be analyzed and can become important evidence. e-Discovery and AI are mutually reinforcing.
Kelly Friedman
Senior Counsel & National Leader, Beyond eDiscovery
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The only way to innovate inside the law firm is to find the pain and address it--no pain, no change.
Manfred Gabriel
Partner
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I've always been curious about new ways of doing things. How do we do things better?
Jennifer Harkins Garone
Senior Director, Privacy & Information Governance
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Finding the right tool to harness all the amazing work that is being done and channeling that to a constantly improving set of organized data is very challenging, but totally worth the effort.
Avi Gesser
Partner
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As someone who fervently believes in the transformative nature and endless potential of technology, it has been especially rewarding seeing the success of our integration of AI and analytics into our discovery processes.
Ross Gotler
e-Discovery Counsel
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I find the adoption rate for technology in the legal space typically requires someone else going first. So our attitude has always been, let's be first.
Alison Grounds
Partner & Managing Director
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AI allows us to see the unseen and to make logical sense out of data patterns too large for the average person to comprehend.
Ron Harry
Director, Legal Operations
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AI is probably the most efficient tool to help organizations turn massive amounts of 'senseless data' into more 'senseful data.'
Stefan John
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer BASF
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Pointing out how attorneys are already using some form of AI in their personal digital life can help them understand how it can be applied in their practice.
Kate Jansons Johns
Litigation Support Manager
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By being able to approach discovery in a new way, using technology, we are creating a more informed legal team that can focus on what really matters--the merits of the case.
Laura Kibbe
Assistant General Counsel
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Technology can help us reach the efficiency we're looking for and free up our team to work on what they're truly good at doing.
Josh Kreamer
Director of e-Discovery
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We need new technology to survive. There's just no way to keep up with the way humans are communicating with each other without new technology.
Meghan Landrum
Director, Head of Discovery
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AI has the potential to radically transform our lives in positive, privacy-protective ways. But it also has the potential for significant harm if not well managed.
Peter Lefkowitz
Vice President, Chief Digital Risk Officer
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This isn't like the unattainable triangle where you have to pick two out of three benefits. It can be faster, cheaper, and better with AI.
Jason Lichter
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Instead of always looking down and doing the everyday work, somebody needs to have their eyes on the horizon at all times.
Katherine Lowry
Head of IncuBaker; Director of Practice Services
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I'm really intrigued by the value proposition of AI and how it can enhance the speed, precision, and efficiency of traditional legal work while reducing spend.
Bobby Malhotra
e-Discovery Counsel
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At this point, particularly for matters with a large e-discovery component, you can't ignore AI.
Jessica Maurer
Antitrust Partner
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To paraphrase Jerry Maguire, technology like AI helps us help the business.
Stephanie Mendelsohn
Associate General Counsel and Senior Director
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If the big picture goal for your organization is to gain insight and understanding through data science, then AI, even broadly defined, promises to reduce that time to insight.
Briordy Meyers
Director, Senior Counsel e-Discovery
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Ignoring technology is no longer an option. The cross-section between legal and technology, including AI, is here to stay.
Scott Milner
Partner, e-Discovery
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Some of the AI-backed technology we have adopted over the years has allowed us to handle tasks at a scale and pace that ordinary humans are unable to match.
Jackie Orchard
Head of Monitoring & Surveillance, Execution Team
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For me, experimenting, exploring proof of concepts, vetting something new--it's an opportunity. It's not scary.
David Orensten
Director, Corporate Counsel
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We recently had a judge tell us that a task needed to be done 'at the speed of electrons.' That statement reflects that technology, and AI in particular, is changing expectations for how quickly our work can be done.
Scott Reents
Lead Attorney, Data Analytics and e-Discovery, Discovery, & Litigation
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In my experience, using AI to assist with classifying data, identifying PII, and flagging data types is vital to achieving litigation and compliance requirements in a consistent, defensible, and cost-efficient way.
Wendy Riggs
Founder
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Ideally you have a human-AI partnership, where AI is doing a lot of the heavy lifting and humans can then do what we still do best--the lateral thinking and strategic insight that help steer the AI and the data growth, understanding the subtext, to make smarter long-term decisions.
Adam Rouse
Senior Counsel and Director of e-Discovery Operations
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We are always looking for the most efficient and compliant way of solving a problem. AI allows legal to do that in many ways--and many more to come.
Jeff Salling
Global Director of e-discovery
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With the explosion of data created and maintained in the normal course of business, we have had no choice but to consider more efficient and effective ways to fulfill our obligations.
Pam Schieffelin
Vice President, Legal Counsel
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With AI, we are about to fundamentally change the way we work, and this will take time to digest, learn, and adopt.
Maurus Schreyvogel
Chief Legal Innovation Officer
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I may not fully understand the inner workings and technical aspects of AI, but I have seen the value that it can create.
Alexis Stroud
Executive Director, Ethics and Compliance
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Opportunities to bring greater value to the legal function through the use of AI are endless.
Janet Sullivan
e-Discovery Counsel and Global Director of Practice Technologyy
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Team members need to feel comfortable--even better if they feel incentivized--to identify problems and come up with creative solutions.
Heather Sussman
Global Head, Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation Practice Group
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How can we do the work that we do as efficiently as possible, in the best way possible? Over the last few years, we are relying more and more on technology like artificial intelligence.
Jennifer Swanton
Legal Director and Discovery Counsel
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It just makes sense that as more and more data emerges, we should be open to new technologies and new workflows to keep pace.
Brett Tarr
Senior Privacy Counsel
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When you build an algorithm, using AI to help you extrapolate the human decisions, you end up with a better result.
Jeane Thomas
Partner, Antitrust & Competition and Privacy & Cybersecurity groups
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What fascinates me about artificial intelligence is that, when used correctly, it makes me a better lawyer that makes better decisions.
Geoffrey Vance
Litigation Partner and Chair of E-Discovery Services & Strategy Group Perkins
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I still believe that responsible AI has significant potential to make our lives better.
Ruby Zefo
Chief Privacy Officer; Associate General Counsel for Privacy and Security Uber
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AI has become so central to discovery that our clients now expect us to leverage it, and we demonstrate our value to them by the sophistication of our approach in using it.
Josh Zylbershlag
Director, e-Discovery Services Paul, Weiss
