This is not your typical company blog.

On our blog, we discuss all manners of topics covering legal work, information, and technologies.

 

We believe that our products have to support what lawyers do and operate within a connected system of processes and technologies.

Our blog covers more than just our company and what we do. We want to share information that might be helpful as you think about the past, present and future of legal work, people, data, business, and technologies.

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Legal Gen AI Megatrend 2024: Measuring Metrics

Alex Smith joins us on the third of our megatrends conversations to talk about his experiences so far, and also a little about the importance of measuring accuracy and performance. Join us for our rainy walk around Central Park.

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Legal Gen AI Megatrend 2024: Tailored Use Cases

In the second of our three part series on Gen AI megatrends, we speak with Abhijat Saraswat. We speak about how to build software that solve real problems for the end users, and how we go about the exercises of listening and building. Ab offers us a master class in product development, drawing on his years of experience working in the highly competitive legaltech vertical.

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Legal Gen AI Megatrend 2024: Build vs Buy

At Legalweek, we spoke with legal tech and taxonomy pioneer Damien Riehl about building and selling legal tech, particularly using Gen AI. Damien offers deep insights that may help in the strategic build vs buy decisions.

This conversation is the first of a three video series that we hope to shed light on key megatrends for the future of legal tech.

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Jaffle makers, Legaltech Events, and Buffets

In our first vlog of 2024, we wanted to explore a few ideas that occurred to us while in Nashville. We had travelled to Nashville for a strategy meeting for ILTA, and during the travels, we noticed a few things that might have interesting parallels to legaltech. We talk a little about what we expect from generative AI tools in 2024, and also about how we will be approaching R&D at Syntheia.

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Goodbye 2023, you have been swell

As we wave goodbye to 2023, let's take a moment to reflect on the year's evolving legal tech landscape. It was a year marked by adaptation, innovation, and a forward-thinking progress in legal technology. In our latest post, we share some observations on the trends that shaped the legal world – from the buzz around generative AI to the subtle shifts in work culture. Join us on a casual stroll through the year's highlights.

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The holiday email that never reached your inbox

As an AI developed by OpenAI, we wish you a safe and happy holidays.

We hope you can turn off a little, relax, recharge, and come back to 2024 refreshed. Next year will be filled with more surprises and advances, and we look forward to sharing more laughs and triumphs with you!

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Releasing our Generation 3 Upgrades — A Progress Update

We are excited to unveil a major software upgrade with the launch of Generation 3, featuring a completely redesigned front end and a refactored back end for more powerful search and insights. The roll out will begin from December 2023. Generation 3 will deliver a more intuitive experience and workflow enhancements tailored to transactional lawyers.

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Tips for your legal prompt engineering experiment

In this blog post, we chat with Steve Goldstein about his experience of prompting generative large language models and what has worked well for his use cases. This is not your standard listicle of top 10 prompting tips. There are already thousands of those listicles. There are even books about prompt engineering now. This is a blog sharing tips from hard-earned experience.

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Paul Farrell joins as Syntheia’s Director of Customer Success

Syntheia is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Farrell as our new Director of Customer Success. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Paul brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the Syntheia team.

As we continue to focus on delivering value and support to our customers, the addition of a seasoned professional like Paul is a significant step to ensuring unparalleled customer service.

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Tips on winning and closing legaltech deals

There is a general consensus that, when compared to other industries and professions, selling to lawyers can certainly feel like a grueling marathon. This is why our approach to “selling” to lawyers and law firms is to not try to sell anything at all. Read this blog post to learn how Jon Bartman at Jameson Legal approach “selling” without selling.

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