Legal IT Insider

Epiq announced yesterday Sept. 4, the acquisition of 36-strong Intapp implementation partner Inflection IT, reflecting in large part the rise in challenges that law firms are facing in safely facilitating the use of AI across their tech stack – and the opportunities that lay in wait for those that do, according to this article from Legal IT Insider.

Ziad Mantoura, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Legal and Consulting Solutions, Epiq

“When it comes to the practice of law, law firms have built very sophisticated controls around who can access what. You don’t find that in any other company and it’s why people trust the world’s leading law firms with anything, including highly confidential and secret information. But it can also be a limitation. The last thing they want to do is say ‘we have this fantastic AI tool and we’re now putting it against all our clients’ data to find out what is truly the market standard across all our deals.’ Naturally, they have to be very careful and that is a limitation. You have to get it right, but you also can’t have your systems just siloed. Your whole ecosystem is going to get more connected and often more complex.”

Read the full article here.


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