Pro Bono
A comprehensive guide to pro-bono for in-house lawyers, refreshed for 2023 🙌
Pause
An open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 🚧
Comp
Brightflag’s 2023 Legal Operations Compensation Survey is out 💸
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"They are a nice ‘pause’ in my busy working day." – Melissa Monks, Lead Counsel – Competition & Compliance and BlueScope Steel.
Job share
Is it possible to job share the GC role? Yes, and here’s the proof 🙌
Copilot
Microsoft announces Copilot — combining AI with the data in your docs, emails, calendar, meetings and chats to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet ⚡️
Hype
Despite the hype, hardly any lawyers are actually using generative AI, and roughly half think it will have “some impact” 🥱
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"The InCounsel Weekly newsletter is the best! I love when it hits my inbox." – Stephen Myers, VP, Head of Legal at People.ai.
Raising the Bar
A watershed result for Prof. Daniel Katz et al using GPT-4 to crush the Bar Exam:
“On the MBE, GPT-4 significantly outperforms both human test-takers and prior models, demonstrating a 26% increase over ChatGPT and beating humans in five of seven subject areas.” 🤯
Taxes
… and watch GPT-4 use a 16-page tax code to calculate the tax deductions for a married couple 🧮
Free
Zuva now has a free version of its contract review tool – no email required, just give it a whirl 🪄
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"My favourite newsletter and the only one I ever actually read. Love it 🥰" – Electra Japonas, CEO at tlb + Co-Founder at oneNDA.
Cut
A revealing true story on how only 5% of time could be cut by using tech to auto-flag contract issues 📑
Luminate+
A new streaming platform that looks a lot like Netflix for legal content 📺
Policy
A free policy generator for your staff to use ChatGPT 🤖
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"Best legal related snippets I have read/watched in ages." – Caroline Ferguson, Business Transformation and Innovation Director at Simpson Grierson.
Job share
Is it possible to job share the GC role? Yes, and here’s the proof 🙌
Copilot
Microsoft announces Copilot — combining AI with the data in your docs, emails, calendar, meetings and chats to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet ⚡️
Hype
Despite the hype, hardly any lawyers are actually using generative AI, and roughly half think it will have “some impact” 🥱
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"The InCounsel Weekly newsletter is the best! I love when it hits my inbox." – Stephen Myers, VP, Head of Legal at People.ai.
"Best legal related snippets I have read/watched in ages."
— Caroline Ferguson, Business Transformation Manager at Simpson Grierson.
